There's something to be said for normalizing cash flows. :) But even so, cloud computing really can result in cost savings if the circumstances are right. The cloud is really about three things: access anywhere and anytime, outsourcing non-core competencies, and leveraging economies of scale. The latter two can save money, with the last having the greatest potential for savings.
We've been using "the cloud" here since long before it was called the cloud. We have software systems that require mainframes to run, but we never wanted to be in the business of owning/operating/maintaining/backing up/upgrading/troubleshooting/fixing a mainframe. It would've made no sense for us to get our own. So we pay a large data center to take care of all of that stuff for us, and that has worked out really well for the twenty years or so that we've done it. John From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 12:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: [OT] Stats about IT Could offerings, in my experience don't offer (much) cost savings. All they seem to do is change capital costs to operating costs, which normalizes cash flows. On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Rod Trent <rodtr...@myitforum.com<mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com>> wrote: Agree that the Cloud will continue to be a topic - but, if the economy improves, no one will care about the Cloud. From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us<mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us>] Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 12:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [OT] Stats about IT The hype cycle applies to outsourcing and the cloud like it applies to everything. Of course, that doesn't make them invalid. Outsourcing isn't going away-enterprises are just realizing that there's a right time/way and a wrong time/way to do it. Future business leaders may be more equipped than the current generation to make smart choices here; I can tell you that we studied outsourcing quite a bit in grad school. The same will be true of cloud computing. We're undoubtedly around the "Peak of Inflated Expectations" now, which invariably leads to the "Trough of Disillusionment." John Hornbuckle, MSMIS, PMP MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us<http://www.taylor.k12.fl.us> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
