Paying for the Flight to the Cloud
ROI for moving to the cloud was another topic discussed at CloudCamp Indy. A major advantage the cloud provides is the use of as many processors as needed for as long as it takes to complete a given process. In other words, a business may lease processing power as needed, then can relinquish the processors for another business to lease. This pay per use model allows businesses to 1) reduce the cost of power required to run local servers, 2) trim up front hardware costs while 3) providing faster computational output in a fraction of the time.
I conclude that “moving to the cloud” is a process that will not be discussed five or six years from now. The future will REQUIRE that applications run on the cloud or they will not be adopted. So as we usher out an era of software licensed per machine, we gladly welcome a time when the cloud is no longer mentioned or referred to, it will simply exist and be depended upon without any historic or rivaled comparisons.
