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Chapter 4: Building an Enterprise Cloud

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Additionally, the organization did not reach the end of its
replacement cycle before running out of capacity. This means
the company must make an out‐of‐cycle infrastructure purchase to add capacity.

Figure 4-1: Traditional infrastructure procurement economics is not a
viable solution.

With enterprise cloud and hyperconverged infrastructure,
you can begin to adopt a just‐in‐time approach to datacenter
resources. This method allows you to also adopt cloudlike
pay‐as‐you‐go economics. Figure 4‐2 shows what such a scenario might look like. In Year 1, you buy what you need for
that year, making sure to keep your purchased capacity just a
little ahead of your workload needs.
Under this model, you have no zero ROI zone. You’re effectively using what you’ve purchased. Your upfront economics
are far better than they are with traditional infrastructure. In
short, you aren’t wasting your capacity.
Notice that your organization didn’t run out of capacity in
Year 4. Instead, your company simply added more nodes to
its hyperconverged infrastructure‐based enterprise cloud
environment. You’ve successfully operationalized the changes
you’ve made to the datacenter environment.

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