http://blogs.hds.com/hu/2007/07/opex_the_other_expense.html Hu Yoshida, VP and CTO of Hitachi Data Systems, provides his insight into industry issues, discusses in his own words storage best practices, and provides realistic solutions to real storage problems of current and next generation storage environments. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:05:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://blogs.hds.com/hu/2007/07/opex_the_other_expense.html#comment-31076 Sun, 19 Aug 2007 23:38:07 +0000 http://blogs.hds.com/hu/2007/07/opex_the_other_expense.html#comment-31076 [...] Hu Yoshida, CTO at HDS, recently blogged about CAPEX and OPEX.  This has triggered a series of emails between Randy Chalfant, CTO at Sun, and Rob Nieboer, also of Sun, about the validity of Yoshida’s thesis.  I am not going to steal Randy’s thunder and I really want to see what he blogs back from his perch.  I will join the battle when the lines have been drawn.  For now, I offer only this bit of research help: [...] […] Hu Yoshida, CTO at HDS, recently blogged about CAPEX and OPEX.  This has triggered a series of emails between Randy Chalfant, CTO at Sun, and Rob Nieboer, also of Sun, about the validity of Yoshida’s thesis.  I am not going to steal Randy’s thunder and I really want to see what he blogs back from his perch.  I will join the battle when the lines have been drawn.  For now, I offer only this bit of research help: […]

]]> http://blogs.hds.com/hu/2007/07/opex_the_other_expense.html#comment-27647 Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:43:47 +0000 http://blogs.hds.com/hu/2007/07/opex_the_other_expense.html#comment-27647 [...] Hu Yoshida: OPEX, the other Expense “While new tools like virtualization, tiered storage, and thin provisioning can help to reduce CAPEX, the bigger value can come in reducing OPEX. So the time has come to realistically consider the other expense, OPEX, and factor that into a TCSO when making a buy decision.” [...] […] Hu Yoshida: OPEX, the other Expense “While new tools like virtualization, tiered storage, and thin provisioning can help to reduce CAPEX, the bigger value can come in reducing OPEX. So the time has come to realistically consider the other expense, OPEX, and factor that into a TCSO when making a buy decision.” […]

]]> http://blogs.hds.com/hu/2007/07/opex_the_other_expense.html#comment-27582 Tue, 17 Jul 2007 03:24:24 +0000 http://blogs.hds.com/hu/2007/07/opex_the_other_expense.html#comment-27582 [...] Hu makes a great argument regarding the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of storage. The key observation I had was that, in the enterprise, it’s easier for the finance folks to measure based on capital expenses (CapEx) than operational expenses (OpEx) because CapEx is an easily measurable expense. I think this is somewhat human nature. Folks simply walk away from deep analysis in those circumstances where qualifying and quantifying are difficult; settling for estimations and best guesses. [...] […] Hu makes a great argument regarding the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of storage. The key observation I had was that, in the enterprise, it’s easier for the finance folks to measure based on capital expenses (CapEx) than operational expenses (OpEx) because CapEx is an easily measurable expense. I think this is somewhat human nature. Folks simply walk away from deep analysis in those circumstances where qualifying and quantifying are difficult; settling for estimations and best guesses. […]

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