Cloud Computing Success Stories Continue to Attract Newcomers
While most of the cloud computing chatter has been about what it is and how it works I believe what matters most is how it is being used to make a meaningful difference for businesses. So I’m going to be writing about success stories that a typical business person will understand. If you’re aware of a success story that is worthy of mention please contact me via the contact form available from the NAVBAR on the site.
Committed from the outset to leveraging the power of the Internet and cloud computing Zuora offers billing and payment solutions for small businesses on a subscription basis. This makes it easy for any size company to build, manage, and grow a subscription business. The ability to integrate Zuora’s Z-Billing service into PayPal and/or SalesForce.com makes it an attractive solution for small businesses. Already over 100 companies are using Zuora’s service and paying on a monthly basis.
SmugMug, an online photo storage application that stores more than half a petabyte of data on S3, estimates cost savings on service and storage to be close to $1 million. It is a heavy user of the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) computing resources to meet surges in demand.
The New York Times Archives + Amazon Web Services = TimesMachine – The Times harnessed the power of EC2 to process terabytes of archival data using hundreds of EC2 instances within 36 hours.
Animoto, an online presentation video generator that needs gobs of computing power for video processing, recently successfully withstood a surge in Web traffic that would kill most companies’ systems by scaling up their processing power quickly using EC2. At one point, they were using as many as 3,500 virtual instances running at the same time.
Here’s a video of Barton George interviewing Animoto co-founder and President Jason Hsiao.


Thanks for the link. BTW, my first name is “Barton” and last name is “George”
For 35 more cloud computing success stories (and growing), see
http://cloudtp.com/cloud-computing/cloud-computing-success-stories
Cheers,
–Erik