In the Quest for TCO, We Lose Sight of the Real Issue–Part One
While it is undeniable that in the majority of cases cloud will be cheaper than traditional models of delivery. The benefits that cloud brings in terms of agility and flexibility far outweigh the cost benefits – looking at TCO alone is a race to the bottom of the cost-cutting hill.
Open Source And Cloud Computing: Open Source Is The Key To Cloud Economics
Regular readers of this blog know that I am a strong advocate for Open Source in this cloud based world. In fact, I have argued many times here that Open Source is equally important as Open Standards in ensuring the freedom of the users. I am going to push this meme again here quoting a [...]
Saving Time vs. Saving Money on the Cloud
Cloud computing promises to help businesses do things better, faster and cheaper. However, when presented the choice of doing things better and faster versus doing things cheaper, competitive growing businesses consistently choose time over money.
Open Source And Cloud Computing: Amazon Micro Instances Can Be Boon To SMBs
Earlier today, I wrote about Amazon’s announcement on the availability of the new Micro Instances and their aggressive pricing strategy. The surprising factor for me is their competitive pricing. Their on-demand instance is only 2 cents per hour for Linux and 3 cents per hour for Windows. A 24/7 usage of a Linux Micro Instance [...]
Is SaaS Dead? No. Neither is Debate.
We’ve had email dead, resumes dead, wikis dead themes, now it’s apparently time for the SaaS is Dead meme, thanks to a recently published Gartner report. My favorite quote from the report: SaaS is not a panacea, and companies need to evaluate and understand the trade-offs that SaaS presents Indeed. Here’s another quote from Gartner [...]
Open Source Or Proprietary?
I am a strong proponent of open source in cloud computing. In spite of an argument in favor of architecture over licensing, I still feel open source has an important future in the world of cloud computing. However, unlike many in the open source world (well, in the proprietary world too), I don’t see open [...]
Windows Azure TCO Calculator
It has been just over a year since Microsoft announced about their Cloud Computing platform, Windows Azure. This year’s PDC is just around the corner and Azure is going to dominate the event. You can check out some of the sessions you can expect in this year’s event. For those who were in deep coma [...]
What Lauren and We All Missed: TCO
So Lauren is the new Microsoft star. Sure, she is prettier than The Dude, but may not be a lot smarter if she thinks the $699 piece of crap low-end PC is anywhere comparable to the Macbook Pro. But perhaps it does not have to be comparable: she may not need a higher end system [...]
More Support For Putting Government On The Clouds
Image via CrunchBase When Mr. Obama was elected as President of United States, we noted that he could tap into the Clouds to make government efficient and, soon, this prediction turned out to be true. Now, David Kralik, Internet Strategy Director for a non partisan group headed by former Republican speaker Newt Gingrich, also pushes [...]
Is SaaS Cheaper? Who Cares, It’s Better
Over on ReadWriteWeb, Jason Rothbart posted rhetorically asking the questions as to whether SaaS is cheaper than traditional installed software. Jason used the following (admittedly pretty off-the-cuff) example to “prove” the hypothesis that, yes, SaaS is cheaper; Let’s look at a real-world example. A 100-person company has been sharing files via email and internal servers. [...]
