Houston Express Soccer Wizards

Congratulations to the Soccer Wizards for a great season!

 

  

SFL Aggies make it to semi-finals

A great year for the Aggies "Wrecking Crew", advancing to semi-finals with a winning record.

 

COSM Solutions was happy to join in sponsoring this awesome league.  Can't wait until next season!

 

Android phones take 75% of smartphone market

IDC report shows Android phone continuing to gain market share, but Forbes article questions shipments vs. usage (along with previous post on user satisfaction.)  Smart money is still to write for both.

Hurricane Sandy makes a case for the Cloud

Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to highlight what otherwise can be viewed as marketing claims for the benefits of cloud computing.  While a large event like Hurricane Sandy shows a concentrated effect, outages and loss of service on a smaller scale happen to on-premise or single-location providers on a daily basis--for those companies affected it is just as devastating to their business.

NYC Websites Running On Fumes In Wake Of Superstorm Sandy (ReadWriteCloud, Brian Profit, 10/31/2012)

Business Solution Costs Comparison

We've continued to research available commercial and open source software pricing (see previous  The Cost of Cloud or Not).  For a full accounting of the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), it is necessary to compare full spectrum of hardware, software, and IT support costs that realistically support a business:

  • Portal / Collaboration
  • eCommerce
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Enterprise Content Management
  • Business Intelligence (Reporting)
  • Office
  • Email
  • Testing
  • Source Code Management
  • Database
  • SW IT Support

Bottom line:  having one vendor to supply everything a company needs is not only simpler, easier, and higher quality--it also has a huge costs savings.

Business Solution Costs Comparison (100 employees, monthly)

Commercial On-Premise Commercial Cloud Open Source Cloud Constellation Cloud
  • Traditional commercial hardware and software acquisition, installation, customization, integration, maintenance, and support.
  • Capital and labor intensive up-front and on-going.
  • Standard commercial software from multiple vendors provisioned onto separate clouds.
  • Lower cost, but IT resources necessary to choose, integrate, manage, and support users across different providers.
  • Supported open source software from multiple vendors provisioned onto separate clouds.
  • Lower cost, but IT resources necessary to choose, integrate, manage, and support users across different providers.
  • Complete integrated functionality for business solutions provisioned on a unified cloud.
  • Extensively researched for best customer value, customized for common platform / database / security, and rigorously tested.
  • Lowest cost through multi-tenant deployment, embedded IT support, open source software, and economies of scale.

 

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