Comments on: What are the business benefits of IaaS? http://www.spoutingshite.com/2008/07/23/what-are-the-business-benefits-of-iaas/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-are-the-business-benefits-of-iaas Cloud Computing isn't about technology; it's about enabling your technology led business model with lower capital investment Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:12:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Thorsten - CTO RightScale http://www.spoutingshite.com/2008/07/23/what-are-the-business-benefits-of-iaas/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Thorsten - CTO RightScale Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:08:24 +0000 http://www.spoutingshite.com/index.php/2008/07/23/what-are-the-business-benefits-of-iaas/#comment-36 Ross, you are correct with your points, but I think the benefits are much broader. For example you can be paying for average resource utilization instead of peak. By scaling down the number of servers as the load drops you end up paying for the average between day & night, business day & week-end, etc. Another benefit is business flexibility. You may want to set-up a beta preview deployment so the biz dev guys can show that to some important prospects before release. Or Engineering may need extra test deployments in the final stages before release. Ross, you are correct with your points, but I think the benefits are much broader.

For example you can be paying for average resource utilization instead of peak. By scaling down the number of servers as the load drops you end up paying for the average between day & night, business day & week-end, etc.

Another benefit is business flexibility. You may want to set-up a beta preview deployment so the biz dev guys can show that to some important prospects before release. Or Engineering may need extra test deployments in the final stages before release.

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