By Ben Kepes on December 7, 2012
One of the most interesting areas in the conceptual discussion of the cloud is the economic impacts it can bring. The conversation is so much broader than just cost savings; there is a deep and complex series of discrete topics to look at relating to both costs and ROI relating to cloud. One of the [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business Value of Cloud Computing, cloud computing, cloudonomics, e-commerce, Economics, Joe Weinman, Weinman
By Ben Kepes on July 16, 2012
Way back when (over a year ago in fact) the second paper released in the CloudU series was on Cloudonomics – the study of the economic impacts and drivers for cloud computing. Having spent years watching this space, I’m continually bombarded by questions from customers, and assertions from vendors about the massive cost-savings that cloud [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Capital expenditure, cloud computing, cloudonomics, CloudU, Operating expense, Opportunity cost, Total Cost of Ownership, video |