The ROI of cloud computing
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Object oriented design (OOD) techniques and ADA (1985-95)
Flight Dynamics Division
More than 80% dedicated to Microsoft's Live Search and the remaining for Hotmail
In August, a really good discovery was posted to a blog called "istartedsomething.com": a screen shot of a software dashboard that illustrates power consumption and server count at each of Microsoft's fifteen data centers, caught in a Microsoft video posted to their web site.
http://ccr.sigcomm.org/online/files/p68-v39n1o-greenberg.pdf
if the data center takes the full load of 44 megawatts at a 90% load factor, Microsoft pays an annual utility bill just north of $13 million, which translates to just over 3.8 cents/kwh as opposed to 5.7 cents/kwh for the ELP rate. To prove that these assumptions are in the ballpark, public documents from another SLP customer in the San Antonio area reveal that its overall utility rate is 3.7 cents per kwh.
According to Rowanmoor Pensions, a similar cloud computing model is saving the organisation about £200,000 a year.
Main savings from: Being able to decommission
By providing applications, storage and computing power online, cloud computing enables firms to buy IT services as and when required without incurring long-term hardware and software maintenance costs.
Other cost savings come from reduced hardware requirements, no capital expenditure on software, and lower power consumption.
NetSuite replaced multiple software systems including a DOS-based financial system, which was actively used by only a handful of accounting staff, and Excel spreadsheets which were used to compile forecasting and inventory.
It has helped identify and eliminate overhead expenses, which is saving approximately $1 million per year."
many of the FPG team work away from an office environment, the organization required an Internet-based, Software as a Service (SaaS) model for 'anytime and anywhere' access.
Seventy of FPG's 100 employees are licensed on the system and can now see the business end-to-end, in real-time and play their part in providing better decision making.
As a result, he said, federal energy consumption doubled from 2000 to 2006
He said a revamp of the Web site for the General Services Administration was completed in one day and the site now costs $800,000 a year, compared to six months and $2.5 million a year that would have been expected using the government's traditional approach. And, he said, with cooperation from the IRS, the government's Free Application for Federal Student Aid can now be prefilled with IRS data at the click of a button, eliminating more than 70 questions and 20 screens.
Speaking at a press event at NASA's Ames Research Center Tuesday, Kundra said that the government could save a lot of money by using many of the Web-based and cloud technologies that are already available to consumers. It costs the U.S. Transport Safety Administration (TSA) $600,000 to set up a blog, he said. By contrast, consumers can get a Blogger account free.
"If in our lives, we can go online and provision Webmail within a matter of minutes, why must the government spend billions and billions of dollars on information that may not be sensitive in nature?" he said.
Kundra is hoping that the cloud will provide a way to streamline the government's annual $75 billion IT spending by using cheaper commercial hosting services and by using virtualization technologies to load more applications onto its servers.
Following up on Tuesday's Apps.gov launch, the government will roll out a number of pilot projects in 2010, making lightweight applications available to users. By 2011, federal agencies will start getting guidance on how they are expected to move to the cloud.
Government market research firm Input has revised its forecast for federal cloud-related spending upward; it now expects the government's cloud expenditures to grow from $363 million this year to $1.2 billion by 2014. "I think this is probably a conservative estimate, considering the push from the administration," said Deniece Peterson, an analyst at Reston, Va.-based Input.
Fronde has been in the business of cloud computing - and integrating cloud, and non-cloud apps - for several years. In 2009, it’s seen the technology move toward the mainstream. Other recent highlights include venture capitalist, NZTE advisor and Power-by-Proxi boss Greg Cross joining Fronde’s board during April, and a major Filipino m-commerce deal struck by its Fronde Anywhere subsidiary. An Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) platform implementation has kept Fronde busy at one major account, and Mr Clarke sees a lot more business cloud computing coming up. Some projects expected to start have not. Some have started with reduced budgets.
Sheena Iyengar has been studying choice. For her research paper, “When Choice is Demotivating”,They set up a free tasting booth in a grocery store, with six different jams. 40% of the customers stopped to taste. 30% of those bought some.
A week later, they set up the same booth in the same store, but this time with twenty-four different jams. 60% of the customers stopped to taste. But only 3% bought some!
Having many choices seems appealing (40% vs 60% stopped to taste)
Having many choices makes them 10 times less likely to buy (30% vs 3% actually bought)
Surgeon Atul Gawande found that 65% of people surveyed said if they were to get cancer, they’d want to choose their own treatment. Among people surveyed who really do have cancer, only 12% of patients want to choose their own treatment.
Having many choices seems appealing (40% vs 60% stopped to taste)
Having many choices makes them 10 times less likely to buy (30% vs 3% actually bought)
Surgeon Atul Gawande found that 65% of people surveyed said if they were to get cancer, they’d want to choose their own treatment. Among people surveyed who really do have cancer, only 12% of patients want to choose their own treatment.
Having many choices seems appealing (40% vs 60% stopped to taste)
Having many choices makes them 10 times less likely to buy (30% vs 3% actually bought)
Surgeon Atul Gawande found that 65% of people surveyed said if they were to get cancer, they’d want to choose their own treatment. Among people surveyed who really do have cancer, only 12% of patients want to choose their own treatment.
Having many choices seems appealing (40% vs 60% stopped to taste)
Having many choices makes them 10 times less likely to buy (30% vs 3% actually bought)
Surgeon Atul Gawande found that 65% of people surveyed said if they were to get cancer, they’d want to choose their own treatment. Among people surveyed who really do have cancer, only 12% of patients want to choose their own treatment.
Having many choices seems appealing (40% vs 60% stopped to taste)
Having many choices makes them 10 times less likely to buy (30% vs 3% actually bought)
Surgeon Atul Gawande found that 65% of people surveyed said if they were to get cancer, they’d want to choose their own treatment. Among people surveyed who really do have cancer, only 12% of patients want to choose their own treatment.