Stratonomic: Beyond Cost Savings in the Cloud

In August 2009, Stratonomic announced the availability of a cloud-based disaster recovery (DR) solution for hosted web applications called Stratonomic Cloud Recoveryâ„¢. With this offering, which is integrated with the GoGrid Cloud as well as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), anyone can have an affordable enterprise-level DR environment set up. Much of the focus on cloud computing technologies and services has been on cost savings. This should not be surprising given the huge potential for expense reduction. For each application migrated to the cloud, as much as 90% of the capital expenses (CAPEX) and 50% of the operating expenses (OPEX) associated with the application can be eliminated. IT organizations that have moved one or more applications to cloud-based infrastructure as a service (IaaS) such as the GoGrid Cloud or Amazon EC2 are reaping these benefits today. This Neovise Perspective Report discusses this event, conveys relevant background and provides additional, detailed perspective.