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\"\"<\/a>Windows Azure saving 50% compared to On-Premise and 12% to Amazon EC2<\/p>\n

This senario is based on an organisation who are hosting a public web site using Ubuntu and MySQL in the EU who have end of month and christmas compute peaks.<\/p>\n

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Details<\/h1>\n

When looking at savings for cloud services it can be very difficult to provide a one size fits all, as each organisation will have different requirements and existing costs. I have spent some time looking at what some of our clients are doing and mapping that to some physical cost savings.<\/p>\n

The cost in this scenario look at just the physical elements of the compute, redundancy and power require to run the application. *<\/p>\n

Windows Azure and Amazon costs are based on the services they offer such as compute, storage and bandwidth On-premise is based on physical infrastructure required to have a pragmatic and similar service as the services offered by Windows Azure and Amazon.<\/p>\n

On-premise; \u00a34,357 per annum (over 3 year\u2019s total \u00a318,822)
\nBased on 5xDell Poweredge, Power costs
\nWindows Azure; \u00a32,221 (no discounts)
\nBased on a Mixture of Small and Medium when burst capacity is required. 300GB Extra Storage, 45GB bandwidth Per Month, 35million transitions per month
\nAmazon; \u00a32,532 (no discounts) based on exchange rate 1.6
\nSame metrics as Azure<\/p>\n

Cost savings
\nAzure to On-premise = 50%
\nAzure to Amazon = 12%<\/p>\n

What is worth adding is that On-premise to build a solution which meets the same security credentials and geo redundancy would cost more therefore the savings could be much larger.<\/p>\n

Windows Azure and Amazon provide different services and therefor the savings on costs may not be the only factor for why either should be chosen; it’s worth noting that windows azure for the costs quoted provides for the following additional services;<\/p>\n

\u2022 Hybrid the ability to move and monitor virtual machines (based on Hyper-V, Xenserver and VMWare) seamlessly between private cloud, private hosted cloud and windows azure
\n\u2022 Data Centre Security credentials such as; EU Safe Harbour, SSAE 16, full HIPPA and FISMA support
\n\u2022 99.95% SLA where Fault Domains have been created and servers load balanced, once Azure VM\u00a0is for public release.
\n\u2022 Integration of PaaS and IaaS services
\n\u2022 System Centre 2012 integration and management.<\/p>\n

Summary<\/h1>\n

Not only were the costs cheaper on Windows Azure but will provide the best security, availability and integration in this scenario.<\/p>\n

So why not give Windows Azure a try today and come to a seminar or workshop at ICS Solutions to learn more.<\/p>\n

Windows Azure http:\/\/www.windowsazure.com<\/a>
\nICS Solutions: http:\/\/www.ics.net<\/a><\/p>\n

Topology example for On-Permise<\/p>\n

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Topology example for both Azure and Amazon<\/p>\n

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* Eco, staffing costs not included, Only WindowsLinux licenses included, all other software licensed separately<\/p>\n

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