The current pricing of Cloud services offers a wide range of configuration, choices and price points for the users. This in turn creates a lot of confusion for the buyer as it’s difficult to measure the value at a specific price point. The objective of this article is to analyze the existing pricing models and reasons behind why there is so much diversity. In the following four sections, this article attempts to:
Compare approx. 27 models of pricing derived from the scholarly articles
Recommend a derived pricing model relevant to the cloud services.
Validate the model by mapping it to the pricing of services by few key vendors.
Analyze reasons behind the pricing in use by various vendors and future trends.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: OpenStack Momentum – Adopters Speak Up
A founding member of the OpenStack Community, Dell has driven significant interest in and adoption of OpenStack-powered cloud solutions among cloud service providers.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Kamesh Pemmaraju, OpenStack Solutions Product Manager at Dell, will talk with DreamHost, a pioneer in OpenStack use, to hear why they made this choice, what products and services they’re creating with it and the upcoming Grizzly release with the new Horizon and Keystone components.
Kamesh Pemmaraju is OpenStack Solutions Product Manager at Dell.
Cosmetic Giant Aggressively Embraces the Cloud
Revlon’s comprehensive cloud has matured, and the benefits from aggressively embracing the cloud have evolved into positive consequences for their data architecture.
When you think of Revlon, we’re global and we have a huge application portfolio. As we put everything on our cloud and are using our cloud, we realized that all of our data sits in one place now.
So when you think of big-data management, we’ve been able to solve the problem by classifying all the unstructured data in Revlon and we did that efficiently. We still joke that it’s like chewing glass. You’ve got to go through this huge process.
But, we have the ability to look at all of our data, a couple of petabytes, in the same place. Because the cloud let us look at it all, we can bring up all of Revlon in our disaster recovery (DR) test environments and have our developers work with it at no cost. We have disconnected that cost and effort.
Once we realized we had this opportunity to start working on our big data, the other unintended consequences was our master data model. On top of our big data, we were able to able to efficiently and effectively build a global master data model.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley Keynote Speaker Profile: Dr John Bates – Progress Software
With Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley (11th Cloud Expo) due to open in a little over two weeks’ time at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA – co-located with 2nd International BigDataExpo – let’s introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the West Coast conference…
Cloud Computing: EC2 Boys Pitch in on OpenStack
At the OpenStack Design Summit & Conference this week in California, Nimbula, the cloud operating system company, signed up to be part of the OpenStack community to improve the OpenStack code base.
It will also incorporate OpenStack services in future Nimbula Director releases.
Nimbula Director, its flagship product, lets enterprises and service providers build large-scale, fully functional infrastructure services from bare metal in a matter of hours.
Its customers include the Russian Internet company Yandex and the US government service provider, Solers. (That drip you hear is evidently the Cold War melting.)
Rock – till You Drop – to The Temptations at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley!
SYS-CON Events announced today that the legendary group The Temptations will perform at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, upcoming at the Santa Clara Convention Center in the first week of November (Nov 5-8).
While the Cloud has been doing well for just six or seven years, The Temptations have been prospering for forty, propelling popular music with a series of smash hits, and sold-out performances throughout the world.
On November 6, 2012, at 8 p.m., The Temptations will wow Cloud Expo attendees with music that spans R&B, doo-wop, funk, disco, soul, and adult contemporary music.
All Cloud Expo delegates, sponsors and exhibitors are invited to attend the Temptations concert on the Expo Floor, November 6 at 8 p.m. Enjoy such hits as «My Girl,» «Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me),» and «Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone» performed by one of the most successful groups in music history.
HotLava Systems to Exhibit at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that HotLava Systems, a provider of high performance Ethernet network adapters, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
HotLava Systems designs and manufactures innovative, server class multi-port 1Gb, 10Gb, and 40Gb Ethernet adapters to maximize port density and bandwidth for robust, flexible, and reliable network connections in the most demanding applications. Founded in 2003 and based in Oakland, California, HotLava’s customers include industry-leading innovators of storage, virtualization, and network solution providers worldwide.
Do You Want to Know What You Don’t Know?
Too many IT departments take the stance of «I’ll worry about it when I have to worry about it.» Problem with security issues is, by then it’s too late. Often times maintaining the status quo is as dangerous as doing nothing at all.
In my experience there are two types of enterprise IT departments -those that maintain the status quo and those looking to continuously explore and improve.
It is truly unfortunate how many fall into the former category. But the problem with IT security is that it’s an ever-evolving and moving target. So the decision to not dip your toe in the water and understand all available options could mean the difference between a panicked 3am call regarding a breach alert or a good night’s sleep.
I realize this is an over generalization, and oftentimes the decision to “stay the course” is not in the hands of IT. There are budget concerns. There are personnel limitations. There are higher perceived priorities. There are complex layers of interdepartmental decision making. So, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it…right?
Do You Want to Know What You Don’t Know?
Too many IT departments take the stance of «I’ll worry about it when I have to worry about it.» Problem with security issues is, by then it’s too late. Often times maintaining the status quo is as dangerous as doing nothing at all.
In my experience there are two types of enterprise IT departments -those that maintain the status quo and those looking to continuously explore and improve.
It is truly unfortunate how many fall into the former category. But the problem with IT security is that it’s an ever-evolving and moving target. So the decision to not dip your toe in the water and understand all available options could mean the difference between a panicked 3am call regarding a breach alert or a good night’s sleep.
I realize this is an over generalization, and oftentimes the decision to “stay the course” is not in the hands of IT. There are budget concerns. There are personnel limitations. There are higher perceived priorities. There are complex layers of interdepartmental decision making. So, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it…right?
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Realize Real Benefits with Cloud-Based Storage
Cloud, Cloud Cloud, it’s everywhere. But does it solve real-world problems? Undoubtedly. Hear how HP Cloud Services and Panzura have delivered to customers a global file system that addresses collaboration, archiving, universal access and performance in one fell swoop. The ROI may surprise you and the ability to free local on-premise resources is an added bonus. See how enterprises are utilizing this combination of the HP Cloud and Panzura to fulfill real world needs
In their session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Eric Thacker, Sr. Director at Panzura, and Kiran Bellare, Director, Product Marketing, at HP Cloud Services, will explain how HP Cloud Services and Panzura have delivered to customers a global file system that addresses collaboration, archiving, universal access and performance in one fell swoop. The ROI may surprise you and the ability to free local on-premise resources is an added bonus. See how enterprises are utilizing this combination of the HP Cloud and Panzura to fulfill real world needs.