Cloud Computing: What's in It for Me?

……on-demand self-service Internet infrastructure where you pay-as-you-go and use-only what you need, managed by your browser or application.

• Bring your own machines,

connectivity, software, etc.

• Complete control

• Complete responsibility

• Static capabilities

• Upfront capital costs for the

infrastructure

• Renting machines,

connectivity, software

• Less control

• Fewer responsibilities

• Lower capital costs

• More flexible

• Pay for fixed capacity, even

if idle

• Shared, multi-tenant

infrastructure

• Virtualized and dynamic

• Scalable and available

• Abstracted from the

infrastructure

• Higher-level services

• Pay as you go

On-Premises

ServersHosted

Servers

Cloud

Platform

Colocation of hardware

you own

We host hardware for you Cloud infrastructure

On-Premises

ServersHosted

Servers

Cloud

Platform

Google

App Engine

GoGrid

GoGrid Azure

Physically located with a hint of the Cloud

Start in Cloud now with GoGrid to understand and develop for Azure

GoGrid

GoGrid

Azure

Azure

GoGrid

Azure

Axis How

Scales

Scalability Complexity Capital

Costs

Engineering

Costs

Horizontal More Massive High Low High

Vertical Bigger Moore’s Law-

based1

Low High Low

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