Monthly Archives: October 2010

The Case for a Cloud Computing Price War

By Daniel Berninger | Published: October 29, 2010

The 10x difference in pricing between the least and most expensive cloud computing offers listed on the Cloud Price Calculator home page reflects an industry in pricing chaos. The long list of issues associated with sessions at the various cloud conferences from security to picking a hypervisor remain moot until the industry becomes more price [...]

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Cloud Price Normalization – CPN Index

By Daniel Berninger | Published: October 26, 2010

The CloudPriceCalculator uses a simple index to compare infrastructure as a service cloud computing offers.  The Cloud Price Normalization (CPN) index adds compute, memory, storage, bandwidth, and divides by price.  CPN reflects the quantity of cloud resources that one can buy for $1000 USD.  The CPN table includes offers from six different vendors with CPN’s [...]

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Unified Theory of Cloud Computing – Avoid it if you can!

By Daniel Berninger | Published: October 20, 2010

Cloud computing represents the latest in a series of concessions to the limits of scaling computer performance.  Multi-threading, multi-cores, multi-processor, and now multi-server solutions arise as compromises in the search for ever more powerful compute platforms. Multi-anything represents a compromise, because it forces partitioning compute tasks.  Decomposing compute tasks to take advantage of parallelism is [...]

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What the heck is an ECU?

By Daniel Berninger | Published: October 18, 2010

Amazon’s ability to leave the price of the original single ECU instance unchanged in the four years since the launch of EC2 suggests they missed the Moore’s Law memo.  In particular, Amazon’s success owes to the invention of the ECU as a new measure of compute capacity that clouds (pun intended) competitive comparisons. Amazon’s Definition [...]

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  • About Daniel Berninger

    Daniel Berninger moved to goCipher after working as a Washington, DC based independent technolgy analyst. Active in VoIP since 1995. Daniel worked on the original assessment of VoIP at Bell Laboratories and led early gateway deployments at Verizon , HP , and NASA after joining VocalTec Communications . He won the VON Pioneer Award as co-founder of the VON Coalition and led the founding teams for of ITXC and Vonage.