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TechCrunch50: CloudSplit arrives to monitor those expensive clouds

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Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
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Joe Drumgoole PutPlace has been busy. He and Eamon Leonard have teamed up to create CloudSplit to allow tech companies to monitor their cloud computing expenses. It turns out they’ve had some awesome feedback from VCs and – indeed – Amazon itself so maybe going to TechCrunch 50 was a good idea after all, as they explain:

CloudSplit from Mike Butcher on Vimeo.

  • Jason Matthew

    It’s good to see a company that is conscious about expenses but also a company that seems to think about making money as well. Can’t wait to see where this goes

  • http://blogs.sun.com/startups stewart townsend

    Cool startup, been talking about this for a while, re storage not being cheap in the cloud, for putting it in, low cost, draggging it out is expensive indeed. We have had numerous webinars talking about this three tier architecture and using cloud when suitable on a cost basis.

    • http://cloudsplit.com David Coallier

      @stewart Spot on, cloud computing has costs. Despite the fact that atomic requests are very cheap, the whole lot together can be.. surprising to say the least :) We hope to bring a way for people to understand that but also be able to manage that and accurately predict their costs.

      In the future, I’m personally working on a feature that’ll allow you to run a sandbox of your service which basically means that you can say… ok, run 10,000 GET requests of files between 10M and 100M over the 15th of month X and the 19 of month X. This can draw you a graph for all different services, and you can see how much it’ll cost you in terms of bandwidth/storage/cost for such peak. We currently have that feature, just not to the public :)

      In fact, using while testing CloudSplit, I found out that requesting about 23 PetaBytes of data would cost me nearly $2.3 Million dollars :)

  • http://thelostagency.wordpress.com David

    That is an amazing way to look at cloud technology and its true costs as it allows you to very quickly determine the true ROI if you are using Amazon Web Services.

    As when using ecommerce tracking within web analytics to track particular campaigns sales, you can also track the true costs of PR campaigns such as TechCrunch on bandwidth.

    Very impressed and im sure it could be expanded to cover other platforms such as SalesForce and Force.com. The possible sharing of data or benchmarking would allow you to quickly determine if you went with a particular Cloud Platform how much you would potentially save or spend.

    This does allow for transperancy around what are the actual costs to you if you move into the cloud.

    Good luck!

  • http://cloudsplit.com David Coallier

    I’m glad to see you are interested :)

    @David giving you a comparison of how much it’ll cost you to move to another service with the bandwidth you are currently using. IE: Compare with “Mosso”, “SalesForce”, etc :) That is definitely what we are aiming for.

    It gives people the ability to really see what solution fits them best. If you have more post and more uploads you may want to go with Mosso whereas if you have more gets you may want to stick with s3 (fictional example). Well this will also give you the ability to do such comparison :)

    The very cool part I’d say is that with alerting and stoploss you can actually save money and catch development mistakes in realtime :)

  • http://thelostagency.wordpress.com David

    @David agreed its kinda awesome as it can stop a typo by a developer sending you broke :)

    I guess Cloud hosting will all potentially follow the Adwords demand model where by using dayparting and running backup/updates at times of the day there is less competition for bandwidth/traffic it is cheaper?

    Would you potentially import external costings such as offpeak data transfer/electricity discounts and create a truely self managed product?

    • http://cloudsplit.com David Coallier

      Yep we’ll also be offering uploading of your existing costs and the external costs are something we have on our roadmap. However there are no real open standards yet for “external” data which makes it quite a challenge :)

      • http://thelostagency.wordpress.com David

        @David yes I can have that bigger than Ben Hur approach at times…

        Agreed that the external data while an awesome feature, can become complex with currency and possible different billing units…

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  • http://krwetatnt.net/vb/f408/ شكشكه

    very nice Resources
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