Total Cost of Ownership Lessons from Customer Engagements

Project and Program: Enterprise Data Center, Data Center Management

Tags: Proceedings, SHARE in Boston 2013, 2013

I will review some of the common mistakes customers have made when comparing the cost of a mainframe solution versus a distributed solution. Underestimating the amount of distributed processing power required, core proliferation that drives up software costs, forgetting to include system management costs, and conversion of data to new formats are a few of the issues discussed. David Rhoderick; Innes Read IBM Corp.; IBM Corporation

David Rhoderick; Innes Read , IBM Corp.; IBM Corporation

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