Comments on: The cloud will cost you, but you’ll be happy to pay

By: Cloud Zone

Cloud Zone — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:09:59 +0000

An excellent article is one which explains its premise, gives easy to follow examples and gives a relevant conclusion – this is one of those. Quite apart from the quality of the article it does rather beg the question as to why there is still so much resistance from some businesses to enter the cloud? (http://ow.ly/buvmb). As Dave points out while only the ‘IT intensive’ enterprises will see the effects of Jevon’s Paradox there will still be bottom line savings for ‘IT insensitive’ enterprises and this is very much worth striving for. There has been a lot of hype about cloud computing which can be positive and negative. Positive because it gets the idea out there and CEOs/CFOs become interested; negative because hardened CIOs have seen hype before and want to make sure an innovation is worth doing and can be done before committing. I think the introduction of Jevon’s Paradox in to the hype/conversation can only be a positive thing as it doesn’t concentrate on costs alone (which every salesman will tell you he can reduce) but also focuses on efficiency and the long term benefits it can bring to an enterprise or an industry.

By: AlanSBPerkins

AlanSBPerkins — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 05:51:16 +0000

I agree, this is a great article, thank you. I have long argued that Cloud is not about cost cutting, but about empowerment and enablement. If you want to really cut costs, shut down the business. My CeBIT presentation, available on my blog, discusses the mindset required when wanting to truly leverage Cloud’s potentialities. My blog can be found at http://cloud81.com

By: Dr. Boris Goldberg, Founder and CTO, Cloudyn

Dr. Boris Goldberg, Founder and CTO, Cloudyn — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 15:27:05 +0000

Jevons’ Paradox also explains why Amazon works with 3rd party vendors that facilitate monitoring, analysis and optimization of cloud consumption – something which often reduces the amount that AWS can charge customers. With the understanding that more affordable cloud computing will ultimately translate into more cloud computing, Amazon knows it’s a win/win to help customers gain insight and control over their cloud usage.

By: Zev

Zev — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 07:30:44 +0000

Great piece. Here at Cloudyn we are working toward making cloud consumption more efficient and effective – so companies can benefit more with less…ad infinitum. Really just another example of Jevons’ Paradox.

By: warero

warero — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 00:34:12 +0000

Reblogged this on ProduSoul.