First written on May 21, 2009 Revised and Updated Sunday, December 27, 2009 Pre-Paid Cloud Hosting Plans We offer 2 pre paid pricing plans for your cloud hosting account. You can upgrade or downgrade at any time for a more cost-effective solution based on needs.  Server RAM Hour Plans  Item Plan I $ 499.99/ month Plan II $ 99.99/month Server RAM Hours* 5000 800 Effective RAM Hour unit rate 0.10 0.12 Deploy a cloud of up to 200 Servers 200 Servers Hardware Load Balancing FREE FREE Set up, consultancy and service fees on the remote server guaranteeing SLA of 99.997% on 24/7/365 basis. $100/month $100/month Data Transfer Plans: Transfer Allotment Transfer 1 TB $199.99/month Transfer 200 GB $49.99/month Effective transfer rate per GB 0.20 0.25 Inbound Transfer FREE FREE To upgrade (or downgrade) your account: Simply submit a request to us to modify your account. For complete terms and conditions, get in touch with us. We can be contacted at sales@mmguniversal.com.  Please click here for our acceptable use policy.  * Server RAM Hours usage beyond any pre-paid plan allotment is billed at the same effective unit price of the particular plan. You may upgrade (or downgrade) to a larger (or smaller) plan at any time through the customer portal, billing tab. Plan changes are not retroactive and are adjusted and pro-rated to your monthly billing cycle. How Cloud Computing Works? Let's say you are managing a corporation. Your particular responsibilities include making sure that all of your employees have the right hardware and software they need to do their jobs. Buying computers for everyone isn't enough. You also have to purchase software or software licenses to give employees the tools they require. Whenever you have a new hire, you have to buy more software or make sure your current software license allows another user. It can be stressful. Instead of installing a suite of software for each computer, you'd only have to load one application. That application would allow workers to log into a Web-based service which hosts all the programs the user would need for his or her job. Remote machines owned by another company would run everything from e-mail to word processing to complex data analysis programs. It's called cloud computing. The only thing the user's computer needs to be able to run is the cloud computing system's interface software, which can be as simple as a Web browser and the cloud's network takes care of the rest. Advantages of Cloud Computing Clients would be able to access their applications and data from anywhere at any time. They could access the cloud computing system using any computer linked to the Internet. Data wouldn't be confined to a hard drive on one user's computer or even a corporation's internal network. It could bring hardware costs down. Cloud computing systems would reduce the need for advanced hardware on the client side. You wouldn't need to buy the fastest computer with the most memory, because the cloud system would take care of those needs for you. Instead, you could buy an inexpensive computer terminal, also known as nodes. The terminal could include a monitor, input devices like a keyboard and mouse and just enough processing power to run the middleware necessary to connect to the cloud system. You wouldn't need a large hard drive because you'd store all your information on a remote computer. Corporations that rely on computers have to make sure they have the right software in place to achieve goals. Cloud computing systems give these organizations company-wide access to computer applications. The companies don't have to buy a set of software or software licenses for every employee. Instead, the company could pay a metered fee to a cloud computing company. This can be shown as revenue expenditure in your books. Obviously, if companies use pirated software and do not believe in buying licensed software it may not apply. However, such companies carry the risk of heavy penalties, if and when found out and the consequences can be disastrous including loss of credibility. Servers and digital storage devices take up space. Some companies rent physical space to store servers and databases because they don't have it available on site. Cloud computing gives these companies the option of storing data on someone else's hardware, removing the need for physical space on the front end. Apart from the storage space, servers and storage devices require air conditioning and stringent back up and safety systems. This can be very expensive to build and maintain. Corporations will save money on IT support and need not maintain a large team of support engineers. If the cloud computing system's back end is a grid computing system, then the client could take advantage of the entire network's processing power. Often, scientists and researchers work with calculations so complex that it would take years for individual computers to complete them. On a grid computing system, the client could send the calculation to the cloud for processing. The cloud system would tap into the processing power of all available computers on the back end, significantly speeding up the calculation. We have compiled a 5 page document titled 'How Cloud Computing Works' in MS Word format. It is based on extensive research on the subject over the web and by no means an original article. However, it will carry our unmistakable stamp of making the complicated simple, when making simple things complicated is commonplace. The same can be sent upon request to ipr@mmguniversal.com.  © Copyright, Dec-09 . Madras Management Group. Without prejudice. All rights reserved