iaas clouds as a commodity
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Petri Aukia's presentation at CloudCamp Helsinki 25.11.2010 at Aalto Venture Garage.
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IAAS clouds as a commodity
Nov 25 2011Petri Aukia
Commodity
Non-commodities
Commodity?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity
• A commodity is a good for which there is demand, but which is supplied without qualitative differentiation across a market.
• … price is determined as a function of its market as a whole.
• goods that formerly carried premium margins for market participants have become commodities, … silicon chips.
Spot capacity
Why does Amazon sell a commodity?
High cost
Long term
Others try to get in the action
The guys in suits will take the money from the server -huggers
Thank you
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