When lock-in is good Cloud pricing starts off simple: you can rent virtual machines in the cloud by the hour, reserve a certain amount of computing capacity for an extended period of time, or, in a growing number of emerging cases, pay only for what you use. That simplicity disappears quickly. Compute, the most basic […]
Compiling a cloud pricing comparison in 2018 is not easy. The three major cloud providers reduce their prices on a regular basis, and they also each offer unique pricing models and differing discount options, making it hard to find an “apples-for-apples” cloud pricing comparison. In addition to fluid prices, pricing models and discount options, the […]
The Kind Where Several Stores Go to You FreshDirect and AmazonFresh are like Peapod in that they deliver all manner of groceries, but they source items from different purveyors. FreshDirect’s emphasis is on fresh—as in produce, eggs, and the like. Delivery costs $7.99. AmazonFresh wins raves for customer service and selection, including Whole Foods fare. It charges $14.99 […]
Last May, I wrote a post asking if pricing transparency is finally happening in eDiscovery. Here’s an article where the trend seems to be reversing – at least for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS, aka cloud) companies in general. And, what the heck is a SaaS “unicorn”? In his article on OpenView – Why SaaS Companies Are Moving […]
A worthy opponent If a merger occurs, Kroger would become even more of a powerhouse in groceries, and a solid investment candidate. It’s already a quality company that has been knocked back due to the investments in pricing it needed to make to compete with Amazon and Walmart. The Amazon purchase of Whole Foods scared […]
Today, the cloud market is dominated by a few mega-providers: Amazon, Google and Microsoft. On the surface, they deliver a similar looking set of infrastructure, with the virtual machine being the basic computational unit. Under the hood, however, there are important differences among them. While moving an application from one virtualization format to another is […]
Kroger’s top – line has been also benefiting from Customer 1st strategy, digital efforts and recent buyouts. Third-quarter revenue is projected to come in at $27,307 million, up 2.8% year over year. However, stiff competition, volatility in food prices, an aggressive promotional environment and waning store traffic remain the primary headwinds with which Kroger is […]
As AWS re:Invent kicks off the post-Thanksgiving holiday interregnum it is worth opening the kimono on cloud pricing. Let’s be clear from the get-go – it’s complicated and coming up with the right cost profile is far from easy. Although AWS controls and dominates the proceedings, many of the attendees use the cloud-savvy, budget-flush demographic […]
For Kroger, that fear has become more obvious by the day. In August, Amazon bought Whole Foods for $13.7 billion and instantly cut prices at the upscale grocer. CNBC has also been reporting on Amazon’s potential efforts to crack the pharmacy market, another reason for Kroger to be concerned. Kroger gets about 9 percent of […]
Amazon Web Services customers will soon pay for their elastic cloud compute (EC2) Linux instances and elastic block store (EBS) volumes by the second instead of by the hour, the company announced today. AWS has offered per-hour billing since launching services in 2006. Per second billing for all new and existing Linux instances on EC2 […]
Why The Fed Needs To Pay Attention To The ‘Amazon Effect’ On Online Pricing | Forbes
It’s no secret that fierce competition from Amazon puts downward pressure on prices charged by Walmart and other big multichannel retailers for the same items. However, the bigger “Amazon effect” relates not to the prices themselves but to the pricing behaviors of these more traditional retailers, according to Alberto Cavallo, the Edgerley Family Associate Professor […]
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This Week in Pricing > 5/18/19
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A new study sparks a war of words over pharma’s commitment to research | STAT
WASHINGTON — A coalition of the drug industry’s fiercest foes is accusing the world’s top drug makers of hiding behind research and development “as an excuse for price-gouging American patients.” And they’re pointing to a new study that finds drug makers spent about 22% of their revenues on research and development in 2017 to prove […]
Drug court to try firms refusing to cut prices | The Express Tribune
ISLAMABAD: The government is expected to take up the issue of hike in drug prices at its next cabinet meeting while it intends to move the drug court against all those pharmaceutical companies who refuse to lower prices of their medicines in line with the recent policy decision of the government. This was disclosed by the […]
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