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Comment on Webex Connect vs Microsoft Online Services by Charles

Charles — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:27:18 +0000

I’d love to see you revisit this topic and compare Cisco’s current version of WebEx to Microsoft Lync 2010 and Lync Online.

Comment on Will 2011 be the year of IT Management as a Service? by May

May — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:51:29 +0000

It will be interesting to see how SaaS grows and develops over time and how it will adopted. An individual is more likely to post personal information on the cloud but a business has more layers of concern which with legal and financial implications which makes for a slower adoption.

Comment on How much money do cloud providers make? by News and commentary on cloud computing for enterprise IT

News and commentary on cloud computing for enterprise IT — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 15:25:13 +0000

[...] other companies, it’s not so clearcut and Dmitry works the numbers pretty well at his post How Much Money Do Cloud Providers Make? Posted in Opinion. Tags: amazon, government, Microsoft. RSS feed for comments on this post.. [...]

Comment on How much money do cloud providers make? by Dmitry Sotnikov

Dmitry Sotnikov — Fri, 27 May 2011 18:59:23 +0000

I think they are very small. Judging by their website analysis from Alexa, they mostly get visitors in Europe, and their popularity is a few magnitudes lower than, say, Rackspace. Which makes me feel that their revenue might still be below a million – not even on the chart with other folks…

Comment on How much money do cloud providers make? by Servancho

Servancho — Fri, 27 May 2011 18:44:11 +0000

How about http://elastichosts.com ?

Comment on Will 2011 be the year of IT Management as a Service? by SaaS

SaaS — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:12:54 +0000

Interesting view of the future and this would definately change the landscape in the SaaS world. Thanks for the post.

Comment on Self-hosting vs Cloud-hosting costs by Dmitry Sotnikov

Dmitry Sotnikov — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:09:11 +0000

Good point. Bandwidth is an interesting one. IaaS vendors charge for it – but it whether or not this is substantial depends a lot on the application profile. I know that from my experience working on http://www.quest.com/ondemand – compute is by far a bigger expense item; storage and bandwidth are way smaller.

Comment on Self-hosting vs Cloud-hosting costs by gvim

gvim — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 02:23:47 +0000

You left out one huge variable – bandwidth costs – the factor that doesn’t seem to be changing in the “Cloud Revolution”. Compare this Rackspace cloud server with a much higher spec dedicated server from Bytemark.co.uk:

Rackspace: 2GB RAM/80GB disk/800GB band./mth. = £1660/year
Bytemark: Athlon II X2/2GB RAM/2 x 500GB disk/800GB band./mth.
= £900/year

That makes the cloud offering 84% more expensive.

Comment on Will 2011 be the year of IT Management as a Service? by Dmitry Sotnikov

Dmitry Sotnikov — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 02:54:23 +0000

Google Marketplace seems to be mostly currently for Google Apps customers who want more tools amending the functionality they get in Google Apps. Predicting future is extremely hard – and I agree it remains to be seen whether we will see a significant uptake in Systems Management as a service this year. I think there is a trend and the systems management vendors are definitely getting ready to jump into the market. How long it will take considering that IT pros are a conservative crowd – obviously remains to be seen.

Comment on What Satya Nadella means to Azure future by D

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 23:00:15 +0000

I would argue about all these point. if look into other huge change that was mentioned in this SteveB promotion e-mail everything will can be seen differently.