{"id":2826,"date":"2012-07-26T11:32:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T11:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/jul\/26\/moving-cloud-makes-great-financial-sense-says-idc\/"},"modified":"2012-07-26T11:32:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T11:32:19","slug":"moving-to-the-cloud-makes-great-financial-sense-says-idc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/moving-to-the-cloud-makes-great-financial-sense-says-idc\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving to the cloud makes great financial sense, says IDC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A detailed study from the International Data Center (IDC) has shown that companies who use the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud make substantial savings over time.<\/p>\n<p>The report, titled &lsquo;Business Value of Amazon Web Services Accelerates Over Time&rsquo; and commissioned by AWS, saw the research house interview representatives from 11 organisations which had deployed AWS onto their services.<\/p>\n<p>According to IDC, after three years enterprises should expect to see three and a half times their investment in AWS; and after five years the realisation would be $8.40 per every $1 invested.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;While all customers had enjoyed positive returns on their investment, there is a definite correlation between the length of time they had been AWS customers and their returns&rdquo;, the report states.<\/p>\n<p>The key statistics from the report are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Those who used AWS saw a 626% ROI over five years<\/li>\n<li>Overall companies in the cloud saved an average of &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A detailed study from the International Data Center (IDC) has shown that companies who use the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud make substantial savings over time.<br \/>\nThe report, titled &lsquo;Business Value of Amazon Web Services Accelerates Over Time&amp;rsq&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}