Cloudiquity

An interesting post asked the question why Amazon S3 is considered cheaper than the alternative  - excerpt below: With a price tag of $0.150/GB/month, storing 1TB of data costs around $150/month on Amazon S3. But this is a recurring amount. So, for the same amount of data it would cost $1800/year and $3600/2-years. And this [...]

Tags: Amazon, Economics, ROI. TCO, s3, Storage

An interesting article at EBizQ looks at some recent analyst reports and supports the prediction that the current global downturn in the economy has resulted in a cost-conscious, capex-constrained economic environment in which cloud and SaaS are more appealing than ever.  Firstly they look at email and come to the conclusion that running an in-house email [...]

Tags: Analyst, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Economics