Because the commercial sector constantly innovates, DOE labs and centers should continue to benchmark their computing cost against public clouds to ensure they are providing a competitive service.
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How much does cloud computing really cost?
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Mobile computing, the falling cost of software creation and distribution and smart computing algorithms are already here.
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It will all be possible because of sophisticated networks, powerful computing, low cost bandwidth terrestrial integration, and seamless switching.
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And of course, Apple was working on a lower-cost computing device.
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But as the software technology matures, it will increasingly be able to lash together thousands of low-cost computing nodes and create a flexible, high-performance corporate data center.
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The first generation of cloud computing focused on cost optimization.
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The idea is to share computing power among many companies and people, thereby reducing the cost of that computing power to those who leverage it.
The primary priorities when determining the use of cloud computing continue to be cost, timeliness, and resource optimization.
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More people can afford to buy the best tool for the job as the cost of computing continues to plummet.
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Every ten years there is a hundredfold drop in the cost of computing, leading to a new paradigm in computing.
Every 10 years there is a hundredfold drop in the cost of computing, leading to a new paradigm in computing.
Larry Weber (Chairman of W2 Group , author of Everywhere): The cost of computing and devices has come down so much.
As the cost of computing power continues to fall, A.I. will play an ever larger role in society's collective decision making.
It is unsurprising that this kind of innovation, which spread in scale and scope as the cost of computing came down, should have lowered the wages of the unskilled.
Today, client-server architectures have been replaced by browser-based user Web applications and the cost of computing has fallen dramatically which, along with cloud computing, have made scalability issue quite a different proposition.
Still, many executives feel cloud computing needs to demonstrate a cost savings of at least 10% before they sign on completely.
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With big players like Amazon and Google in the Cloud Service Provision business, and organizations as diverse as Reddit and the City of Los Angeles using those services, cloud computing promises huge savings in cost and complexity.
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The new era emerges from the build-out of the wireless information highway and low-cost high-performance computing engines.
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The Open Compute Project was the result of an activity at Facebook to build the most efficient computing infrastructures at the lowest possible cost.
They only paid for the computing power they used, avoiding the cost and resource burden of building infrastructure in-house.
Cloud computing is up to 40 times more cost-effective for a SMB, compared to the alternative of running its own IT system as a recent research shows.
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Enterprises have resumed IT spending not only to replace their aging infrastructure, but also to reap cost benefits from virtualization and cloud computing.
The firms reported a 70% cost savings from shifting operations to cloud computing, Ms. Kinton says.
But it has only been in the past two years or so that the combination of computing and networking technologies became inexpensive enough to be cost-effective on industrial sewing machines.
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Cloud computing as the next IT wave has significantly reduced the cost of launching any new business venture.
When implemented properly, the cloud computing economic model can drastically reduce the operations and maintenance cost of IT infrastructures.
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