Even though the API is fairly simple, don’t underestimate the value Twilio can bring to your business.  The possibilities are nearly endless.  How about offering telephone based time sheets to field workers?  Automatic SMS notifications from your existing enterprise applications?  Easy to use conference lines with a personalized welcome message and hold music – for less than you’re paying now for your generic conference calls with complicated IDs and PINs?

We’d love to hear about your ideas for using Twilio.  Our team is available to help with everything from the up front planning and requirements through development and deployment of your custom solution.  Most solutions can be up and running in less than 30 days.  Contact us for more information and to discuss your idea.

At $0.15 per GB per month, cloud service providers can turn a profit.  But the margins are a lot a tighter than those traditionally seen in enterprise software and managed services.  With all of the hardware and networking efficiencies gained over the last decade, we are finally reaching the point where the lifetime energy costs of operating a commodity server are more than the cost of the hardware itself.  Unless we see a breakthrough in energy costs, don’t expect a major breakthrough in storage costs any time soon.