{"id":17741,"date":"2015-02-27T16:10:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T16:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17741"},"modified":"2015-02-27T16:10:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T16:10:50","slug":"video-pricing-solutions-with-azure-virtual-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17741","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; Pricing Solutions With Azure Virtual Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest blockers, in my personal opinion, to Azure IaaS adoption in the SME space is understanding how to price solutions. I don\u2019t get questions about technology, features, cost, trust or any of that; instead, I get questions such as \u201chow much will this cost me?\u201d. Microsoft does not help themselves with a very complex pricing model &#8211; please don\u2019t try to bring up AWS &#8211; Microsoft doesn\u2019t sell AWS so I don\u2019t get why they are relevant!<\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019ve started producing some videos for my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mwh.ie\" target=\"_blank\">employers<\/a>. This one focuses on pricing solutions based on Azure virtual machines.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UcfLtBey4hI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:3577dc35-bb39-40ba-b601-cbf15db63423\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Azure\" rel=\"tag\">Azure<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Microsoft\" rel=\"tag\">Microsoft<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Cloud\" rel=\"tag\">Cloud<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Hybrid+Cloud\" rel=\"tag\">Hybrid Cloud<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Cloud+Computing\" rel=\"tag\">Cloud Computing<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Licensing\" rel=\"tag\">Licensing<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest blockers, in my personal opinion, to Azure IaaS adoption in the SME space is understanding how to price solutions. I don\u2019t get questions about technology, features, cost, trust or any of that; instead, I get questions such as \u201chow much will this cost me?\u201d. Microsoft does not help themselves with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17741\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Video &#8211; Pricing Solutions With Azure Virtual Machines&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[170,172,59,65,183,185],"class_list":["post-17741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-azure","tag-azure","tag-cloud","tag-cloud-computing","tag-hybrid-cloud","tag-licensing","tag-microsoft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17742,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17741\/revisions\/17742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}