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Determining True Cost of Ownership for Data Centers

Determining True Cost of Ownership for Data Centers Few people fully understand the enormous costs — and potential benefits-of owning a data center. This spreadsheet-based tool will help you quickly evaluate the finances of this massive infrastructure project. Data centers are mission-critical components of all large enterprises and frequently cost hundreds of millions of dollars […]

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Feb 10, 2009

Determining True Cost of Ownership for Data Centers

Few people fully understand the enormous costs — and potential benefits-of owning a data center. This spreadsheet-based tool will help you quickly evaluate the finances of this massive infrastructure project.


Data centers are mission-critical components of all large enterprises and frequently
cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build, yet few high-level executives understand
the true cost of building and operating such facilities. This document presents a
simple spreadsheet tool for modeling the true total cost of ownership that can be used
to understand all the components of data center costs.

The attached Zip file includes:

  • Intro Page.doc
  • Determining True Cost of Ownership for Data Centers.pdf

  • Cover Sheet and Terms.pdf

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