A
TLANTIC DOMINION
SOLUTIONS LLC (ADS)
IS SOMETHING OF
A RARITY IN THE IT
WORLD: a solution provider with SMB clients that’s making real money reselling cloud computing resources.
Specifically, the Winter Park,
Fla.-based application development
and data warehousing firm is leveraging “platform-as-a-service” offerings from the Amazon Web Services division of Amazon.com Inc.
Drawing on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Service (S3), which offer
hosted processing power and storage space, respectively, ADS is
building custom solutions for its
clients that require no up-front investment in back-office hardware or
software. Like most cloud platform
providers, Amazon charges customers only for the resources they
use, as they use them, and it
scales those resources up or down
dynamically as needs fluctuate.
With money tight and credit
scarce, more and more businesses
see appeal in that pay-as-you-go pricing scheme, which is why cloud-based projects are making an increasingly large contribution to ADS’
bottom line. “I’d say about 20 percent of what we do is in one way or
another involved with the Amazon
platform,” suggests ADS Chief Executive Officer Robert Dempsey.
Definitions of cloud computing
ADS CEO Robert Dempsey sees
opportunity in cloud-based services.
Photo by Christopher Casler
COVER STORY
Profits in the
CLOUD
Cloud-based infrastructure services, with their pay-as-you-go pricing, are
catching on with SMBs. Here’s how to make money from them now.
