SHOW: Season 3, Show 1

OVERVIEW: From the creators of the Internet's #1 Cloud Computing podcast, The Cloudcast, Aaron Delp (@aarondelp) and Brian Gracely (@bgracely) introduce this new podcast, Cloudcast Basics.

TRADITIONAL IT ECONOMICS

Introduction & Explanation:

Dominated by proprietary hardware and software.
3yr, 5yr, 7yr hardware refresh cycles - required to depreciate assets
1yr, 3yr, 5yr software contracts - often include in “Enterprise License Agreements” (ELAs)
Successful POCs were often contractually bound to buy the solution.
Not all software was easy to upgrade between tiers of features. No “free-tier”.
Large vendors would have financing arms to create loans, or “on-demand” pricing (typically based on “true-up” reports at various times of year).
Businesses still needed to pay for all the facilities to house the data center (building, power, electricity, insurance, etc.)
Open source software began to change some of those dynamics, but not all companies had the staff to operate open source software.

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Traditional IT Economics

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