An increasing number of vendors now offer infrastructure—on premises and within a customer-controlled data center—for consumption on a cloud-like, pay-as-you go basis. Editorial Standards ...

These actions of slowing cloud services and headcount reductions will impact cloud capex spend. I show YoY change for 2022 and 2023 by U.S. hyperscale companies in Chart 3. YoY growth in 2022 may ...

Chart 3 shows another perspective of cloud capex growth, a comparison of capex spend in 1H 2021 and 1H 2022. It shows 1H2021 vs 1H 2020 growth (blue bars) and 1H 2022 vs 1H 2021 growth (orange bars).

Choose on-premises architectures when:. Security is an emotional subject. Security considerations are always paramount, but some sectors have a gut level reaction to the cloud, and the decision ...

Compare this to Dell and HPE with Net Scores of 18% and 9%, respectively. Dell has a large market presence with an N over 800 and HPE a respectable 483. But the cloud still has meaningfully higher ...

However, the OpEx vs. CapEx debate fails to capture the real revolution in IT economics that cloud computing has brought: The “pay-per-use” model forces an understanding of the real costs of ...

Weighing the Cloud: OpEx versus CapEx. Cloud vendors tout the benefits of paying for cloud services as operating expenses, rather than raising capital funds for infrastructure projects on campus. But ...

Despite extending server lifespans, AI's power demands drive more datacenter builds Amazon expects to spend $75 billion on capital expenditure in 2024 and even more in 2025 – mostly on its cloud ...