Cloud Computing: Testing Microsoft Azure and Amazon's EC2 Economically

This blog was guest written by Greg Hubbard. Greg is the Director of Application Development for Q Interactive, a Chicago based digital marketing services company.

When the resistance to technology innovation is discussed, the resistance is usually given the face of the mythical pointy haired boss, the management, finance or business person that “just does not understand!” While this can be the case, sometimes the resistance actually comes from within Information Technology and it should not. IT should be the entity thinking “well, let’s take a look…” While I do not advocate running around trying every new thing that comes along and throwing large sums of money at it in the process, I do promote looking at things in ways that are inexpensive in time and capital commitment. To that end, I use a three step process for trying out a new technology:

1. Find a way to try it out with minimal time and budget impact.
2. Discuss my experience in a large community.
3. Try it again.

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