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April 5, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Is agility and focus worth a price premium – on converged infrastructure costing more…

By Ben Kepes

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-to’s, interviews with industry giants, and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find. If that’s your cup of tea, you can

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January 18, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Is agility and focus worth a price premium – on converged infrastructure costing more…

By Ben Kepes

Krish wrote a post covering a report which showed that the costs involved in utilizing converged infrastructure (ie a consistent approach towards hardware and software that sees everything in a data center fit together like lego) runs to some 15% more expensive than when using a more “Do It Yourself”

Tagged Capital expenditure, cloudcomputing, Converged Infrastructure |

Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.