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Re:We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem by bombcar on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @02:39PM (#29166407)
The "who had to spend it" is huge - companies love paying providers and hate paying people/depreciating costs.
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Re:We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem by walrus01 on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @03:03PM (#29166734)
> 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.

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Re:We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem by markus_zhang on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @03:02PM (#29166724)
Curiously our company moved from AWS to on-premise a couple of years ago. Something about CAPEX -> OPEX was mentioned back then.
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Re:We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem by bombcar on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @03:03PM (#29166731)
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.
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Re:We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem by markus_zhang on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @03:09PM (#29166801)
Yeah, that was a bit more than one year before we filed for IPO :)
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