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Hybrid IT For Dummies, HPE Special Edition 36 These materials are © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Any dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. There is a lot more to leasing than I can fit in this chapter, but the short discussion point is this: Leasing can help you opera- tionalize your data center expenses and get closer to pay as you go and may enable you to, from a financial perspective, more easily react to new business needs as they impact your on‐premises data center infrastructure. Cloud Services: Uncovering the Costs, Hidden and Not Like on‐premises infrastructure, cloud has economic models, but rather than a series of options, it's generally a series of charges that you incur at different points. Acquisition Cloud service acquisition costs are often pretty low, at least compared to buying a data center outright. You pay for what you need at the moment, and that's it. For some services, you may pay an activation charge of some kind, and you may choose to pay consultants or cloud provider staff to help you get started, but, again, on the hardware and software licensing front, you pay for just what you use. Scaling Eventually, you'll probably need to add storage or compute or some other service. It's easy in the cloud. You simply request more resources, and they magically appear! Of course, your payment goes up as well. This is one of the big dangers in the cloud. There are stories of companies unknowingly racking up thousands and thou- sands of dollars in charges because someone made a mistake. Sometimes the provider will waive these charges, and some- times they won't.