What does the cloud cost me?
Let’s assume that you’re the Head of IT at a small to medium-sized enterprise and need to decide whether you will continue to deploy your IT resources on-premise, or whether you will procure comparable performance as a cloud-based IaaS. Your 5 servers, each with 8 CPU cores, 32 GB RAM and 15 TB HDD storage, cost you $3,454 per month. Comparing the costs of cloud and on-premise solutions, you would only pay $2,753 per month for an improved cloud computing performance.
So what would you decide?