Paul Burns

Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and software-as-a-service providers are using new business models to deliver value on a pay-as-you-go basis. This means differences in pricing, packaging and sales models. It also means differences in billing and payment systems.

Cloud-based service providers need flexible and adaptable billing and payment systems that handle all of this and more:

Subscriptions, complex pricing
Invoicing, micro-transactions

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A new Breed of Managed Hosting for the Cloud Computing Age (--)

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Retooling for the Subscription Economy (--)

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Introduction: Back in 1999, Reed Business Information started a major business transformation. With roots in business-to-business publishing stretching back over 100 years, the company still relied primarily on hardcopy products including magazines, directories and books. However, pervasive use of the Internet, electronic publishing and the emergence of online advertising looked likely to disrupt the industry.

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Breaking out of the Private Cloud Pack: Platform ISF 2.1 from Platform Computing ($)

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On January 25, 2011, Platform Computing Corporation (Platform) announced the release of Platform ISF 2.1, an end-to-end software product that enables enterprise IT organizations and service providers to build and manage clouds using mixed hardware and multiple virtualization technologies. Key areas of enhancement include more powerful resource management, improved application lifecycle management, and greater ease of use for both administrators and application catalog users.

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Supercomputing Moves to the Cloud, Powered by NVIDIA GPUs ($)

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By combining the power of the GPU with cloud computing, a number of NVIDIA partners are making the power of supercomputing available on-demand. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Nimbix, Peer 1 Hosting and Penguin Computing all offer hosted GPUs from NVIDIA. This means enterprises and start-ups that could not otherwise afford to build a private, high-performance computing (HPC) environment now have affordable access to supercomputing whenever they need it.

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