Cloud computing is about cost advantages, not application deployment

The cost of deploying an application on the cloud can never be less than deploying an infrastructure, and the benefits of using a cloud computing service are actually costs.

Earlier at the World Summit on Application held in London, Claudenet product director Martin Sanders said in a statement: "People need to understand is that the cloud is not the cheapest, a company often have to buy a cheaper one Taiwan server, and then paste it in the server room to run, but in my opinion, because cloud computing is a service, it should not be compared to the purchase of infrastructure and hardware. "

Microsoft Cloud Services CTO, cloud computing strategy CIO Ron Fraser added that cloud computing is a cost-saving mechanism compared to traditional sales.

"From a company-internal perspective, cloud computing is all about potential savings, risk assessment, and how to manage your portfolio, and from an external perspective, cloud computing is about driving the economy, and" He said.

"If anything else, cloud computing is a fundamental shift and a democratizing access economies of scale. You can be a small company, you can also access the same global diversified and flexible infrastructure, IBM or JP Morgan can have a price point in the same unit. "Fraser said this is a competitive landscape for many markets, meaning that very small companies can take on board staff, unencumbered legacy systems and traditional crafts and traditions Policy and risk assessment process.

European Commission to start a new strategy to accelerate and increase the cost of cloud computing and cloud computing used in the region is being subjected to more and more rigorous scrutiny.

The European Commission claims that 80% of organizations use cloud computing to achieve a cost savings of at least 10% to 20% and plan to create 2.5 million new jobs. The new strategy of raising the gross domestic product by 16 billion U.S. dollars by 2020.

However, TechMarketView analyst Anthony Miller said: "Our own projections indicate that real growth in consumer software and IT services in the UK market will fall to 2015 (ie excluding inflation) and will then remain fairly stable."