Where do you save money using cloud computing?
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1.1 Hardware
- o Number of existing physical servers
- o Average total purchase price per server
- o Average Hardware % utilization
1.2 Software
- o Number of existing non-Free OS (e.g. Windows Server) licenses
- o Number of existing virtualization software licenses
- o Annual virtualization software license cost per physical server
- o Cost of non-free OS license (one time cost) per physical server
- o Cost of non-free OS annual license maintenance per physical server
1.3 Provisioning
- o Number of images installed per year (provisioning requests)
- o FTE hours required per provisioning without automation software
- o FTE hours required per provisioning with automation software
- o Costs for provisioning automation software (Tivoli Service Automation Manager)
1.4 Productivity
- o Total number of projects per year
- o Average idle time caused by provisioning per project without automation
- o Average idle time caused by provisioning per project with automation
1.5 System Administration
- o Number of existing physical servers
- o Number of actively managed OS instances
- o How many system administrators are managing the environment (excluding network and storage administration)
- o Administration productivity gain due to cloud transformation
- o Ratio of system administrators to support staff
- o Annual labor cost per system administrator
