On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 01:18:18AM -0500, Eric Bravick wrote:
>
> I'd be happy to give Ian some real world cost/benifit analysis data for
> his presentation. We've had tremendous success here with our new
> incarnations of hosting based on standardized packaging of UML based
> systems. I can't say enough good about it! It really has changed
> everything...
>
> I'm sure Ian will get into all the technical "why would you do this."
> NKS did it not only from that technical perspective, but from a business
> one. We pretty much only do hosting for clients that want security and
> all sorts of other features associated with dedicated, firewalled
> hosting. The cost of this is high... to high for the average client.
> Simply put, UML cut our costs for 40% of our services to 1/20th of their
> previous cost... and that is only 2 months into the roll out! I'm
> expecting 90% penetration in 2 more months... Need I say more than 95%
> cost reduction across 90% of our server infrastructure?
And the amazing bit is that Eric isn't exaggerating. The business case
is phenomenal. Revolutionary, even.
The future is virtual server farms. UML is precisely this - today!
- Ian
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