Paying for It: Cloud Costs and Billing Models
Moderator:
Allan Leinwand, Venture Partner, Panorama Capital
Speakers:
- Thorsten von Eicken, CTO and Founder, Rightscale
- Grace Kim, Sr. Manager, Marketing, WebEx (Cisco)
- Jesse Robbins, Co-Founder and CEO, Opscode
- Richard Dym, Chief Marketing Officer, OpSource
Allan Leinwand opens with telecommunications innovation story, how “friends and family” plan broke AT&T’s monopoly and points out that “friends and family” is back now in cell phones. As such, he sub-heads the panel as “Why Pricing Matters”.
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This evening, we are at Cloud Camp. For background, check out this interview with Cloud Camp co-founder Dave Nielsen. Dave is also our host today.
The lightening rounds are done. For insights, search on twitter with either of these tags: #cloudcamp #cloudcampinterop
Now, Dave is building an un-panel session. He started with 5 empty chairs and no questions. Filled the chairs with folks who raised hands to “Folks that know a lot about cloud computing”. No one admitted expertise. Now, he’s asking the audience to build a list of 10 questions.
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Jeff Bauer from Forbes.com starts by describing his business challenge: Make real-time quotes available the website, do it fast & cheap and the history of real-time quote availability and how the owners, availability and price of real-time data has changed overtime.
Decided to use BATS exchange for real-time data, gave them access to streaming data, but the data was in a raw format. Forbes didn’t have the infrastructure to transform the raw data into response to real-time stock quote requests. Forbes is a publishing company, not a technology provider.
Forbes.com decided to partner with Xignite. more >>
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