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In the Quest for TCO, We Lose Sight of the Real Issue–Part One

September 4, 2012

Business

amazon, amazon web services, AWS, cloudcomputing, Information technology management, TCO, techcrunch, Total Cost of Ownership

In the last little while I’ve seen a couple of posts that focus on the difficulties around calculating total cost of ownership of cloud versus on-premise infrastructure. First up on TechCrunch was a guest post from Jinesh Varia from…

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Cloudonomics – The Video

July 13, 2012

Business

Capital expenditure, cloud computing, Operating expense, Opportunity cost, Total Cost of Ownership

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-tos, interviews with industry giants and the occasional opinion piece are what…

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It’s the Total Cost of Ownership that Counts

August 12, 2011

Business

cloudcomputing, Networking, rackspace, Servers, Total Cost of Ownership

First published on the Rackspace blog. Not long ago I was alerted to a humorous, if somewhat jarring file. This pdf (read it and weep) is the price list for the Fusion series of applications from Oracle. The list has a couple of pages of…

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