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How to Calculate Data Center TCO
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Data center TCO or total cost
of ownership can include
a plethora of items
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with a mix of initial/fixed costs
and ongoing operational charges
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So, what should go into such
a TCO spreadsheet?
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Are You Sure You’ve Included
Everything?
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A more general list of cost drivers
includes:
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• Cooling equipment
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• Electricity
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• Engineering and installation
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• Power equipment
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• Project management
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• Racks
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• Service
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• Space
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• System monitoring
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These costs may also vary
individually according to whether
you are constructing your own
data center or buying one that
has already been built
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However, they do not include the
costs of IT compute
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18.
What Really Makes Data Center
TCO Go Up or Down
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Spreadsheets are good tools
for trying out different
assumptions and scenarios
(‘what-if’ modeling)
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However, because ‘spreadsheet
myopia’ is a common ailment,
some major factors are
sometimes ignored
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21.
Time is Money Too
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22.
The time you and your colleagues
spend on figuring out all the ‘stuff’
required to correctly design,
dimension, and run data center
facilities is already a cost
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23.
Do You Really Want to Do This?
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24.
Understanding data center TCO,
even at a basic level, can be
helpful because it allows you to
compare with other solutions
such as data center colocation
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A colocation service provider
has already done the costing
and spreadsheet analysis
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in order to present a customer
with a pricing schedule that
should make sense for both
of them
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27.
Which spreadsheet have you used
to evaluate TCO for your own
data center needs?
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28.
Share your experience with us
in the Comments section for this
article!
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