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Economics of choosing a cloud

platform for an organization

- Ajinkya Panday,
- Vivek Prasad,
- Nikhun Jena.
How does Cloud saves money ?

Like food & logging, computing has also become the daily need,
especially for economic forces, business drivers and firms, enterprises &
companies. In the olden days, it is said that - economy is directly related
to energy. Similarly, a person's growth or the development of an
organization depends on what its owner feeds and in what way. The
world of technology nowadays thinks about the increase in computing
power with lower energy or resource or financial consumption.
Economic Planning for Organizations

For IT firms and their management department, energy consumption is not a


small issue. Along with energy, maintenance of data-centers based on
enterprise budget is also a prime factor that needs planning. So IT managers
are looking for ways to increase the capacity and flexibility of computing and
hardware thereby lowering costs and increasing their return on assets
(ROA). Within the last few years, the trend of technology shifted from
traditional enterprise data centers to management via server virtualization
which allows faster & efficient deployment of processing without increasing
the data center's size, staff overhead or energy consumption.
Economic Planning for Organizations (Contd..)

With the maturity of cloud, the cost and economic factors relevant to
cloud technology including architecture trades, the technique of
implementation, life-cycle cost, service cost, etc. have striking
implications for government as well as in firms. Cloud Computing has
emerged as a new computing paradigm, and it's bringing a change in the
same manner as cost and economic evaluations for IT. IT environments
have evolved a high degree of sophistication for cost estimating
methodologies in recent years.
Dependencies & Questionnaires of Cloud Economy

Cloud computing economics depends on four customer population metrics:


1. Number of Unique Customer Sets
2. Customer Set Duty Cycles
3. Relative Duty Cycle Displacement
4. Customer Set Load

These above metrics allow the cloud-providers to use less IT resources and obtain maximum IT
resource. Proper balancing & handling of these above resources can save up to 30% of the IT
resources. For economic planning, Booz Allen Hamilton, a leading strategy, and technology
consulting firm, has a clear understanding of and models for effective Cloud Computing-based
life-cycle cost and economic modeling.
This firm addresses every aspect of cost related efforts & questions such as:
● If you are migrating current systems to a cloud, how will you handle (and
cost) the migration?
● Will you migrate all IT related tasks into the cloud, or it will be partially
migrated?
● What IT chores should remain in the current environment?
● Will you use a public cloud, or you will need a private cloud?
● If you are migrating IT requirements into a cloud, how will you handle and
budget for the short-term operations of distributed and cloud
infrastructures?
● What can special-purpose computing tasks be enabled in the cloud
technology that wasn't possible in the current environment?
● Can the cloud provide levels of service commensurate with existing
service-level agreements?
Economical Decisions

Cloud technology provides users with strong facilities & economic


incentives. The selection for implementing the private, public,
community or hybrid cloud solely depends on the customer's
specification for applications they want to use, the performance they
need, the security they want to take & compliance requirement. Proper
deployment model can save monetary value as well as time in a
significant manner, provide better IT services & provide a higher level of
reliability.
Achieve Cloud Economics for Operation & Services
Users get frustrated when they need to secure their resources to business
requirements. Even if they're willing to pay the attributed cost, they may find that
technology cannot deliver resources to address their needs. Frustrated by the
unavailability of resources required to fulfill their needs, and for that, they opt for the
options to obtain resources are as follows:
● To obtain sufficient resources for enabling the business opportunities
● Hire a senior IT manager or an IT management team to put their request. This may
help in letting the business proceed forward with the full initiative. But doing this
fosters disrespect for the existing cloud process.
● Request to the senior corporate manager for raising the technology and resources
(in case of cloud-security, or cloud-infrastructure).
Economic Characteristics of Cloud
The unique characteristics of an ideal cloud technology model is mentioned
below:
● Scalability: Access to unlimited computer resources without thinking about
the economic aspects. This feature needs planning & provisioning.
● Low Entry barrier: Users can gain access to systems for small investments
also; which allows the offer to access global resources to small ventures.
● Flexibility: Cloud provides high economic elasticity. Users can re-size their
resources based on their need. This feature allows optimizing the system &
captures all possible requirements.
● Utility: As cloud providers 'pay-as-you-go' model, users can match their needs
& resources on an ongoing basis. This eliminates waste and added benefits
Thank You

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