Re:We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem
by bombcar on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @02:39PM
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The "who had to spend it" is huge - companies love paying providers and hate paying people/depreciating costs.
Re:We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem
by walrus01 on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @03:03PM
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> hate paying depreciating costs.
One possible solution for this if you want to do it as bare metal you control, is leased equipment (even with $1 buyout at end of term), which can be accounted for differently than purchasing it up front.
Re:We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem
by markus_zhang on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @03:02PM
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Curiously our company moved from AWS to on-premise a couple of years ago. Something about CAPEX -> OPEX was mentioned back then.
Re:We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem
by bombcar on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @03:03PM
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That's the second part of the loop, when the cost of AWS is high enough that you can show immediate dollar savings by bringing it in-house.
Re:We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem
by markus_zhang on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @03:09PM
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Yeah, that was a bit more than one year before we filed for IPO :)
The public cloud and managed services work great for the most common use cases, but go outside those and you start having to engineer around limitations.
If you have a sizable footprint in any given dimension you're trading one complexity for another.