In this article business value of cloud computing will be discussed. In deciding whether hosting a service in the cloud makes sense over the long term, it is argues that the fine-grained economic models enabled by Cloud Computing make trade-off decisions more fluid, and in particular the elasticity offered by clouds serves to transfer risk.
As well, although hardware resource costs continue to decline, they do so at variable rates; for example, computing and storage costs are falling faster than WAN costs. Cloud computing can track these changes and potentially pass them through to the customer more effectively than building one’s own datacenter, resulting in a closer match of expenditure to actual resource usage.… Read the rest