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5 best practices for accelerating research computing with AWS

AWS Public Sector

Chief financial officers (CFOs) stress the importance of measuring the value and return on investment of research conducted, but often lament that the true costs of on-premises resources are distributed across various budgets, or masked. Conclusion Researchers seek to push the envelope and see cloud as an instrument to further their research.

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Evolution of the Status Quo

The Procurement School

Author : Chris Sheel Delivering major capital projects on time and on budget has always been a challenging and elusive goal. Budgets previously developed require reactive revisitation as estimates balloon. Constraints, obstacles, and variability have arisen in several areas that were previously far more predictable.

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It’s time to evolve IT procurement

AWS Public Sector

Figure 1 show a comparison of on-premises and cloud procurement models against nonlinear application demand. A comparison of the procurement models for an on-premises deployment and a cloud deployment when mapped against a nonlinear demand curve for an underlying application. Workloads typically follow fluctuating demand curves.