The Economics of CapEx and OpEx in Cloud Computing
To date, analysis of the true benefits of moving critical computing functions into the cloud remains largely framed by a straight-up comparison between buying servers, renting portions of servers at co-location facilities, and buying computing and storage capacity in a public cloud. In any Capital Expense (CapEx) or Operating Expense (OpEx) calculations, it’s important to consider capabilities that are truly unique to cloud- based deployments that may not show up in traditional CapEx and OpEx calculations.
