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The Economics of Cloud – More Than Just Services, Platforms, Infrastructure

An excellent (German) article by BITKOM summarizes business challenges, decision points, and business models of cloud-based solutions. BITKOM segments the “Cloud” space into Software, Platforms, and Infrastructure. While this is all true and good for current business, the Cloud stack looks more like Information, Relationships, Services, Platforms, Infrastructure, and Networks.

Chris Anderson’s Zero-Cost Digital Distribution? Not For Me!

Whoever says that storage, hardware and bandwidth are ridiculously cheap by now should try and scale (and keep operating) cloud storage for 500k+ users – or roughly $23k per month for me. While economies of scale benefit ad-based business models, they also exponentially grow your storage costs – in the worst case for things no one ever wants to see again and you can not delete without driving away your customers.

Cloud Computing Is Not A Resource Problem – It’s A Design Problem

Most amateur database programmers will answer you that any kind of application “basically only needs one big table”. Well, Twitter has proved them wrong. Just throwing more resources at a problem isn’t necessarily the best idea if your design is already flawed. That is also true for cloud-based testing, or even cloud-based testing of your cloud-based applications.

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