Archive for the 'CAPEX' Category
SAN ROI 12 Years Later
Posted in CAPEX, ROI, Storage Economics, TCO on October 14th, 2011 No Comments »
One of the first pieces of IT economics work that I did at HDS 13 years ago was on the ROI of Storage Area Networks (SAN). At that time HDS had started supporting and re-selling FC SAN products from Inrange, Troika, Ancor, CNT, McData and others. HDS had ESCON solutions for years (at that time), [...]
Profit Sharing
Posted in CAPEX, ROI, Return on Assets, Storage Best Practices, Storage Economics, Virtualization on September 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
Actually the title of this blog should be “Cost Savings Sharing,” but that is not a very catchy way to draw you in.
Go Figure – This Economy…
Posted in CAPEX, Return on Assets, Storage Best Practices, Storage Economics, TCO on September 15th, 2011 2 Comments »
The other day I ordered this poster to hang in my office from one of those de-motivator sites…
Hypervisor Economics – Excerpts From An Upcoming Paper – Part 3
Posted in CAPEX, ROI, Return on Assets, Storage Economics, TCO, Virtualization on September 6th, 2011 1 Comment »
This is the third and final post in a three-part series of excerpts from an upcoming paper on Hypervisor Economics (part one and two here). Please share your comments, questions and feedback below.
Hypervisor Economics – Excerpts From An Upcoming Paper – Part 2
Posted in CAPEX, Storage Best Practices, Storage Economics, TCO, Virtualization on September 2nd, 2011 No Comments »
This post is the second of a three-part series of excerpts from an upcoming paper on Hypervisor Economics (you can find part one here). As always, I look forward to reading your comments and feedback below.
Hypervisor Economics – Excerpts From An Upcoming Paper – Part 1
Posted in CAPEX, ROI, Return on Assets, Storage Economics, TCO, Virtualization on August 31st, 2011 2 Comments »
In my next few posts, I’ll be sharing some excerpts from an upcoming paper on hypervisor economics. Feel free to provide comments and feedback below.
So Let’s Do A TCO
Posted in CAPEX, Storage Best Practices, Storage Economics, TCO on August 23rd, 2011 3 Comments »
For years I have encouraged clients to ask for TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) data when they create requests for purchases (RFP, RFI, ITT, etc). Customers need to ask vendors for more than just the price, they need to ask for the total cost. Lately, I have seen more of these requests come in from [...]
Think Like an Economist, Talk Like an Accountant, Act Like a Technologist
Posted in CAPEX, ROI, Storage Economics, Virtualization on August 9th, 2011 2 Comments »
I have been marginalized.
With all the recent news and talk of budget caps, debt limits and austerity plans, it seems as if everyone is an economist these days. There certainly is a lot of frightening news, and some predictions that we may return to business and national economic patterns that we saw 3-4 years ago. [...]
Hypervisors: Welcome to Storage Economics
Posted in CAPEX, ROI, Software, Storage Economics, TCO, Virtualization on June 1st, 2011 6 Comments »
For the past 12 years, I have been defining and refining principles, concepts, categories and models around storage economics. In the past few years, it has become necessary to move into adjacent infrastructure areas to identify, measure and reduce the costs of IT.
So how cheap is that disk??
Posted in CAPEX, ROI, Storage Economics on March 17th, 2011 7 Comments »
We have all heard it before.
“I can go down to <insert name of local retail tech store> and buy a 1TB disk for $60. Why is your enterprise disk so expensive??”
