Tag Archives: Total Cost of Ownership

September 4, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

In the Quest for TCO, We Lose Sight of the Real Issue–Part One

By Ben Kepes

In the last little while I’ve seen a couple of posts that focus on the difficulties around calculating total cost of ownership of cloud versus on-premise infrastructure. First up on TechCrunch was a guest post from Jinesh Varia from AWS who correctly pointed out some of the difficulties around calculating

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July 13, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Cloudonomics – The Video

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-tos, interviews with industry giants and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find. If that’s your cup of tea,

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August 12, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

It’s the Total Cost of Ownership that Counts

By Ben Kepes

First published on the Rackspace blog. Not long ago I was alerted to a humorous, if somewhat jarring file. This pdf (read it and weep) is the price list for the Fusion series of applications from Oracle. The list has a couple of pages of product items, a bunch of different modules, minimum numbers of seats

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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.

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