CIO Magazine: Cloud Computing Project Savings
In the June 1 issue of CIO Magazine, I digested the talk of cloud computing and the variables associated with cost and cost benefit analysis. The core attraction of clouds si that companies can avoid buying and running hardware, software and other equipment by contracting with a services vendor to run selected systems or applications on its own infrastructure of virtualized servers. This common use of virtualized environments for SaaS (Software as a Service) is becoming a wide-eyed optimistic approach to managed technology with diversity relevant to project or company size. “The ’services’ you purchase are delievered in a standardized, multitenancy fashion that observers say will save one-third to one-half of your current costs.” Motorola with 33 SaaS applications, including Salesforce.com, “estimates the cost at one-third to one-half of what Motorola normally spends on those applications.”
Erik M. Zeterberg
Chief Executive Officer
Florida Software Engineers, LLC
