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These materials are © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Any dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. The Real Costs of Workloads In This Chapter ▶ ▶ Paying for your data center infrastructure ▶ ▶ Considering the pitfalls of the cloud C ompanies today are looking for balance in IT. They have dozens, hundreds, and even thousands of workloads already deployed, and they want to run these workloads in the most financially efficient way possible. Don't read that to mean that all companies want to do IT on the cheap. Instead, they want to ensure that workload operating environments are designed to support the current and ongoing needs of the business. At the same time, of course, they want to run those workloads in a way that makes financial sense. On‐Premises Infrastructure Economic Models You probably already have a data center. It has servers, storage, networking, and workloads. You have people who manage it all. And you have a business that is constantly seek- ing more from you, but that isn't necessarily providing more financial or staffing resources to meet expanded goals. Chapter 5