“Cloud Computing” The New Paradigm?

[SEBirch]

I was wondering if anyone has any experience with Cloud computing as a business model. How does one determine what to charge? . . . getting your website known? . . . determining if you really have a product people want? I have seen many websites “touting” this new business model (Microsoft is pushing it very heavily) but I don’t know anyone who has pursued it yet. Thank you,

Stephen E. Birch

 

[mrdenny]

Lots of companies are offering public cloud offerings. To name a few

Microsoft
Amazon
RackSpace
EMC
GoGrid

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[kmcferrin]

How does one determine what to charge? . . . getting your website known? . . . determining if you really have a product people want?

The last question is easiest. Instead of building a product and then trying to figure out if people want it, why not build something that people want and then build something that meets that need?

There are a slew of cloud providers out there, all providing different "cloud solutions". Some are application as a Service(Salesforce.com and some Google apps, for example). Others are Platform as a Serivce (Amazon, Azure, Google), Infrastructure as a Service, and so on. The key is that you are delivering a service to clients over the Internet, that they are paying on a metered basis based on utilization/consumption, that you have capacity to elastically scale out when need and snap back when capacity is not needed, etc.

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