A Better Metric for Analyzing the Value of the Cloud

While you may be reading and hearing about positive financial and the economic analyses regarding the benefits of Cloud computing, those analyses are based on unrealistic total cost of ownership (TCO), return on investment (ROI) and misinterpreted CapEx/OpEx calculations. Indeed, these calculations are missing a complete understanding for the value of the Cloud in the…

Taking a Behind the Scenes Look at Storage TCO

In today’s economic environment, it’s critically important to make sure that any data storage system an organization purchases has an optimally low total cost of ownership (TCO) over its lifetime. Many storage buyers today use capital expenditure (CapEx) as the sole factor for determining the value of a storage purchase. In doing so, they overlook…