For many punters, the economic benefits of a pay-as-you-go rented virtual machine start to disappear at around $10,000 of predictable monthly spend, and at this point it really does make sense for them to investigate other support options or even start owning their own hardware.
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Amazon beats profit expectations, tops 90,000 employees for first time
AWS has lowered prices 31 times since it launched in 2006, including 7 price reductions so far in 2013.
—Amazon beats profit expectations, tops 90,000 employees for first time
Pivotal puts PaaS in the spotlight
{{{So specific!}}} Paul Maritz, the former long-time Microsoft executive and VMware CEO who now heads Pivotal, says there’s a lack of an application development platform with built-in capabilities to manage and analyze large quantities of data geared toward the enterprise. Pivotal is a “new platform for a new era,” he says.