5 Ways to Compute Cloud Computing ROI
May 26th, 2010 · No Comments »The future of IT is in cloud computing, but how do you explain that to the “C” level executives? This model uses two specific business metrics and 5 ways that you can explain the ROI of cloud computing to your boss or to the board:
• IT capacity – storage (GB or TB), CPU cycles (GHz or THz), network bandwidth (Mbs or Gbs), and/or memory capacity (RAM) a measure of performance.
• IT utilization – uptime availability (% available per year) and volume of usage (# of requests) as indicators of activity and usability.
Effective cost/performance ratios and levels of usage activity do not necessarily imply proportional business benefits. They are just indicators of business activity that are not in themselves more valuable than lower operating costs. What is needed instead is a set of business metrics that build on the cloud computing model.
The following are business metrics that can help translate the indicators from the capacity-utilization curve to direct and indirect benefits to business and examples of how a CAPEX is different than an OPEX in cloud computing:
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LandAirSea GPS Tracking Device from Tracking Key
May 26th, 2010 · No Comments »LAS-1505 Tracking Key Vehicle GPS Tracking System
- For Those Who Want To See Where Others Are Driving
- Small, Pocket-Sized GPS Device Tracks GPS Data
- Receives Signals From 24 GPS Satellites Orbiting The Earth
- Internal Computer Accurately Determines the Location Of Device Within 2.5 M & Records Data Every Second
- Can Be Easily Hidden In Or Under Car
- No subscription necessary
The battery lasts about two weeks. It shows on an overhead map (adjustable to satellite images with Google Earth) the exact path it took, or an animated time-clocked journey, showing where it went, how long it stopped, when it moved again. Data is downloaded to a PC for viewing. Takes Lithium batteries.
Microsoft Updates Hotmail
May 19th, 2010 · No Comments »Although Hotmail popularized web-based email, it has fallen behind the competitors Yahoo and Google in features
Down, but not out, Hotmail is still used by millions of people around the world and is still a critical aspect of Microsoft’s online business strategy, especially as Microsoft moves more into the cloud with its more traditional revenue models like Microsoft Office, which is releasing version 2010 this year. Hotmail is particularly useful to non-english speaking users because of its large language support and according to Comscore its still the most used web email with 360 million users compared to Yahoo’s 300 million and Gmail’s 200 million. Still, Hotmail hasn’t changed much since Microsoft bought it in late 1997. This was after starting up in 1996 and garnering over 9 million users.
So what is changing?
Microsoft announced that this summer they will begin rolling out new, advanced features that are akin to what Gmail users are used to:
- The option for viewing emails as conversations (although the default will still be as single emails)
- Automatic filter buttons to filter emails from people on your contact list, emails from social networks, shopping sites, and others.
- Larger attachment sizes, up to 10 GB using Microsoft’s SkyDrive
One thing that remains the same is the huge banner ads running alongside your email, ala 1996, in addition to the text ad tagged onto all of your emails beneath your signature. That is, unless you pay $20 a year to remove the ads.
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