Cloud Computing: Opinion – The inverted pyramid of IT infrastructure
August 13, 2014
Grazed from CloudComputingNews. Author: Nick Razey.
If we ever lose a bid for a data centre contract, it is for one of two reasons. Either the customer insists on being close to London and is happy to pay the premium for doing so, or the customer is obsessed by paying the lowest possible price and will accept any quality of data centre service to achieve this.
While I struggle to understand both points of view it is the latter approach which is totally incomprehensible in the modern world. I see the IT infrastructure as an inverted pyramid. At the bottom is the cheapest element, the data centre service. It is staggering to think that the cost of this per rack (at NGD at least) is only £20 per day or less…
That £20 rack supports perhaps £50k to £100k of hardware and software (the next layer of the pyramid), which support multiple business applications that provide the business systems and processes which are fundamental to the efficient running of a business worth millions (the top level of the pyramid)…
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