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Re:Google joins Open Compute Project to drive standards in I... by tyingq on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @07:01PM (#11256546)
He implies that it's cheaper than, for example, buying HP+EMC+Oracle...

And then, not directly, roughly saying that scaling up on cheap commodity type hardware is only possible because of the efforts of Amazon/Google/Facebook.

He doesn't directly compare AWS versus, say Rackspace.

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Re:Google joins Open Compute Project to drive standards in I... by tw04 on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @08:26PM (#11256881)
I'm not comparing it to Rackspace. I'm telling you I've run the numbers, and I can do it cheaper on prem with HP + EMC or Cisco + NetApp than I can in AWS. Unless I'm running compute at less than 50% capacity and storage at less than 60% capacity, it's far cheaper to do it on prem.
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