Comments on: CodeBlue first with affordable Cloud computing service

By: Shelley B

Shelley B — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 23:29:36 +0000

this is my first visit and just wanted to stop by to say Hello Everyone!.

By: Marcus Smith

Marcus Smith — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:12:07 +0000

Okay so we are going to have to agree to disagree regarding cloud services based internationally however to clarifiy your point regarding Maxnet. This is acutally a Maxnet / CodeBlue partnership and there is a combined stratergy to offer these services to the domestic market via the CodeBlue brand.

The first to market at this price point was not something “plucked” out of the air and had some serious (and expensive) market research done before we made this claim.

By: TechNZ

TechNZ — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:10:14 +0000

Latency would be an issue with real time protocols such as VoIP but as a application or file server Amazon’s service is very good and much cheaper that $200 per month. Maxnet do an excellent service NZ in their high availability datacentre and also use VMWare at a very good price point. No doubt you have a very good service on very good hardware but your claim to be the first at this price point may be as you say “a marketing pitch”

By: Marcus Smith

Marcus Smith — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:20:00 +0000

First with “affordable” is the marketing pitch. What we are offering is a complete VMware based server which the client can do what they like with based in a New Zealand data centre.

There are many Cloud based providers out there (most offering just SAAS) but when you start drilling in to it it get’s pretty expensive. What we set out to achieve is to set a price point that was comparable to having an onsite solution.

You mention Amazon and my response to that would be to consider the latency. New Zealand’s international broadband pipe is still pretty weak and offshore based cloud offerings are always going to cause issues. Microsoft has released some of it’s apps into the cloud market which is hosted in a datacentre in Singapore. Office communication server is unusable due to latency issues.

By: TechNZ

TechNZ — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:07:50 +0000

Where did you get the idea that you were first with Cloud computing? How is it that you think that you are unique in your approach? This is certainly not the case. I’ve seen many service providers in NZ have cloud computing infrastructure already or alternatively resell Amazon’s. Provisioning of virtual servers is much normally much faster than traditional servers typically a few minutes so it shouldn’t cost the same to implement the service unless you were installing manually. Interesting attempt at marketing.

By: Nick Spooner

Nick Spooner — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:27:28 +0000

Really solid and incisive post.

The cloud is giving birth to some amazing breakthroughs. For example, we spent 7 years developing and market testing a small business ERP system.

As well as making our system available to every small business around the globe, its also gave us the opportunity to significantly reduce the cost to end users who know they want an ERP solution but previously could not afford it.

As system developers we have been able to harness state of the art web tools to design and build a system that is incredibly user friendly and can be deployed without expensive ERP consultants.

The feedback from our customers in 24 countries has been unanimous – “salesorder.com is easy to use and can be implemented in just days”.

This feedback has given us the confidence to offer a ‘white label” version of our small business ERP to technology resellers, accounting firms and other organisations who are working with small businesses and want to ‘get into the cloud opportunity’.

Now traditional applications such as ERP will become a commodity as a direct result of cloud computing.

Clouds are cool……