Cloud computing research

TO:                        Alejandro J. Mayorkas, Team manager

FROM:                 Alexandru Cristian Mara, Engineer

SUBJECT:             Cloud computing investment research results.

The research about cloud computing shows that with an investment of around 9€ a week for cloud hosting and 500€ to 1000€ to teach our engineers, this new way of working can make our profit increase a 25% and the products TTM (time to market)  might decrease a 15%.

This week we have finished the research about including cloud computing as part of our base development system. The main findings are: in first place, 30% savings in IT resources; in second place, the benefit cost ratio for each product will be 7:1 and finally the on demand scalability. Complete switch to a cloud computing architecture may take more than 6 months. Costs per month are about 36€.

Based on this results we can conclude that cloud computing is absolutely profitable. The switch to this new way of working, even thou it may be long and difficult, will give us an advantage over our competitors.