| 1 | === Commercial offers |
| 2 | * Aruba Cloud (low cost for the Italy based service provider [https://www.cloud.it/cloud-computing/calcola-costo-cloud.aspx# |Calcola il costo del tuo Cloud]): |
| 3 | 1. from the website of a commercial collaboration sw (Polycom) I've derived the minimum requirements for the full suite of tools - web conferencing, sharing and collaborative apps (from Data sheet:
http://www.polycom.com/content/dam/polycom/common/documents/data-sheets/polycom-realpresence-web-suite-data-sheet-enus.pdf) and estimated the cost per month offered by a cheap Italian provider, since Amazon require a long registration process and too much details: |
| 4 | RealPresence Web Suite Pro License |
| 5 | - Services Portal–8 virtual cores, 
8 GB RAM, 100 GB Storage |
| 6 | (Aruba cloud offer: 152,640 Euro per month 187,200 Euro with Windows license) |
| 7 | |
| 8 | - Experiences Portal–8 virtual core, 
16 GB RAM, 100 GB Storage |
| 9 | (+ 175,680 Euro) |
| 10 | - Standards Connector–4 virtual cores, 
8 GB RAM, 100 GB Storage |
| 11 | (+ 95,040 Euro) |
| 12 | - vSphere 5.5, 5.0 or 5.1 |
| 13 | - Windows Hyper–V Server 2012 & 
Hyper–V 2012 R2 |
| 14 | |
| 15 | it is 500 a month so at least 6000 a year just for the machine and standard maintenance. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | (see also: [https://www.cloud.it/cloud-computing/listino-prezzi.aspx | Listino prezzi]). |
| 18 | |
| 19 | * Amazon |
| 20 | Here the link to have the Amazon offer (a bit higher: $ 1279.97 per month) for a typical set of requirements (to be checked, I couldn't specify analitically the requirements simply choose a template: Social Media Marketing Auto Scaling Web Application in 2 AZs) for a server based in Ireland: |
| 21 | 3 Web servers of 2 virtual cores, 8GB RAM, 500 GB storage each |
| 22 | 2 App Servers of 4 virtual cores, 16 GB RAM each |
| 23 | 2 Database Servers of 4 virtual cores 16 GB RAM each |
| 24 | 15 GB of Data Transfer 30 GB od Data Storage and Backup. |
| 25 | Amazon (Ruby on rails) application that serves approx 200 concurrent users |
| 26 | [https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html#key=calc-430BFF5F-53F3-4FFE-BDFE-D5884156E3BD&r=DUB | Amazon WS Simple Monthly Calc] |