Amazon's TCO white paper attempts to quantify the return.
Friday, August 17, 2012
Hard to Calculate Total Cost of Ownership, Return on Agility
"In the many meetings with customers in which I have done a deep dive on their architecture and applications to help them create an accurate cost picture, I have observed two common patterns: 1) It is hard for customers to come to an accurate Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculation of an on-premise installation and 2) they struggle with how to account for the “Return on Agility”; the fact that they are now able to pursue business opportunities much faster at much lower costs points than before," says Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO.
Amazon's TCO white paper attempts to quantify the return.
Capacity vs. Usage Comparison
Amazon's TCO white paper attempts to quantify the return.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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