Archive for December, 2012
Back to 1999 CAPEX Ratio
Posted in Storage Economics on Dec 20, 2012 1 Comment »
I like looking at trends. Let’s take a look at one storage economics trend—the ratio of CAPEX to OPEX in the total cost of storage ownership.
Two Economically Superior Customers – In One Day!
Posted in Storage Economics on Dec 12, 2012 No Comments »
I am working in Sweden this week, meeting with various customers and speaking at the Hitachi Information Forum in Stockholm. I was fortunate to visit 2 customers, and was very surprised to find that they embrace some key enablers that reduce unit costs of storage:
Challenging the Tradition of Depreciation for IT Ownership
Posted in Storage Economics on Dec 6, 2012 No Comments »
In my last few blogs, I discussed options to reduce costs, and how at certain points in time (right now for more and more clients), challenging and changing the IT ownership paradigm is one of the best ways to reduce both OPEX and CAPEX within the storage/IT department.
