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Ben Kepes

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Ben Kepes is a cloud computing analyst and the curator of CloudU, a year-long educational program about cloud computing that is sponsored by Rackspace Hosting. In the face of a myriad of marketing messages from different vendors (and multiple opinions on what cloud even is, let alone where its benefits lie), this long-term, educational series honestly and openly lays out the facts about cloud computing. Follow Ben on Twitter @benkepes.

Cloud Computing Raises Total IT Expenditure: Why That’s a Good Thing

I recently wrote a paper looking at the economics of cloud computing. In the paper I identified a number of economic impacts of cloud computing-reduced unit cost being one of these impacts. However, a recent blog post by Andrew McAfee that applied the Jevons Principle to cloud computing caused some consternation among commentators. The Jevons […]

Cloud Computing Raises Total IT Expenditure: Why That’s a Good Thing
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