tailieunhanh - What is the price of a mousetrap? The assessment of value from cloud services

Why would you want to know the price of a mousetrap? Customers no longer need to know the price of servers, software and the rest of the parts making up the IT service stack. This knowledge is as useful as knowing the price of a mousetrap. Customers, however, must know the price of the equivalent services from other cloud providers. | What is the price of a mousetrap The assessment of value from cloud services. By Ernie Zibert Copyright 2012 Ernie Zibert Smashwords Edition Smashwords Edition License Notes Thank you for downloading this free ebook. Although this is a free book it remains the copyrighted property of the author and may not be reproduced copied and distributed for commercial or noncommercial purposes. If you enjoyed this book please encourage your friends to download their own copy at where they can also discover other works by this author. Thank you for your support. Discover other titles by Ernie Zibert at . Table of Contents Value from your Cloud provider The price of a Mousetrap If it were only as simple as a mousetrap IT Infrastructure is a tumour of the modern corporation Conclusion In this ebook I discuss one functional transformation that has taken placed as a result of cloud services namely the impact on the assessment of value. This is a timely discourse as the vast majority of customers are using cloud services. In fact numerous recent surveys confirm that more than 80 of customers are using cloud services http cloudline 2012 03 cloud-here-to-stay http 2012 05 10 cloud-services-data . Moreover several surveys have replicated the finding that four out of every five customers believe that cloud services met their flexible infrastructure needs. The bottom line is cloud services are here to stay and customers must be able to articulate the value of their cloud investment. How do you know if you are getting value from your cloud services provider In the traditional model most customers would simply compare their existing IT costs against their cloud services costs. This is best seen as a generation one performance measure. This measure is no longer suitable for the assessment of value from cloud services. It is akin to undertaking a Return on Investment ROI without taking into consideration the time value of money or .