"Terrace got us from design to a working application in record time, which has been instrumental in moving our product development forward. Their team is highly skilled, collaborative and quite willing to work pragmatically to adjust to our process. With regards to Azure, they were able to identify and solve the tricky issues up front, thus avoiding much of the pain typical of working on the leading edge of technology.
Steve Harshbarger
Chief Technology Officer, PRIMARQ
"Utility Computing" has easily measurable benefits for business. The Cloud is a "Demand Based" resource where users pay only for what they consume, and the availability of compute and storage is nearly infinite. It's a variable computing model with variable charges and instant availability.
We see three primary advantages to cloud computing:
The fees which a business pays to a cloud computing organization cover a broad range of individual technology costs now embedded in an I.T. department's budget. Computer hardware, storage, software licensing, data center management and systems administration are all included in your cloud usage fees. In traditional on-premise architecture, these costs are buried in an I.T. budget, which can obscure the actual costs for each and every application. In a cloud model, costs per application are quite transparent. The costs might be variable based on demand, but they do not exhibit the traditional software curve with high upfront capitalized costs. The cloud offers your organization the flexibility to scale up and down as necessary and avoid carrying costs for peak periods that occur infrequently over the course of a year.
Cloud vendors provide access to multiple datacenters through a ubiquitous network on the largest computing infrastructures available. Applications run faster on the cloud. User experience is better on the cloud. Security is better on the cloud. Uptime is better on the cloud. Managing development, test, and production environments in the cloud is simpler and faster.
