The True Cost of Public Cloud

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COLUMN: The True Cost Of Public Cloud

CRN’s Steve Burke says it's vital for companies to have trusted cloud advisers to determine which solution will provide the most value.

By Steven Burke April 29, 2019, 02:38 PM EDT

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This website is using cookies. x We use them to give you the best experience. If you continue using our website, we'll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies on this website. Continue Learn more PDFmyURL easily turns web pages and even entire websites into PDF! There’s a good reason why strategic service provider CPP Associates’ Infrastructure Anywhere assessment, which is aimed at determining where RELATED STORIES workloads should reside— on-premises or off-premises—is driving big sales growth. News Cloud Rivals Microsoft And Oracle It’s because CPP Associates is doing the hard work as a trusted adviser, Partner To Connect Clouds crunching the real numbers to determine which solution will provide the News Cloud biggest competitive advantage and the biggest bang for the buck. VeeamON 2019: The Top Takeaways From Veeam Execs And “We’ve done 27 of these Infrastructure Anywhere assessments and almost Partners every single one has turned out to be the same: On-premises done correctly

is always less expensive than off-premises done correctly,” said Paul O’Dell, News Cloud a director at CPP Associates, Clinton, N.J., which counts Hewlett Packard Veeam’s Ratmir Timashev On The Enterprise, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and VMware among its 'Huge Opportunities' In Hybrid premier partners, along with nine software-deﬁned data center partners, Cloud, Disaster Recovery And four networking/security partners and four cloud enablement partners. Ofﬁce 365 Backup

“It’s a runaway landslide if off-premises is done incorrectly. The savings of News Cloud SADA Systems Hires Google Cloud 50 [percent] to 75 percent are very realistic. What we tell our customers is: Solutions Director As CTO ‘We believe in company-ﬁrst, but not-cloud ﬁrst.’ I can assure you that it is in

their best interest to have us do one of these studies.” News Cloud Second Google Cloud Region The assessment is based on a several-week drill down into a customer’s IT Launched in Japan systems and environment, including data collection for target workloads with detailed comparisons between public cloud infrastructure costs and on-premises HPE costs. The assessments helped drive 80 percent growth for CPP Associates on the HPE value portfolio in 2018 and 100 percent growth on that portfolio in the ﬁrst ﬁscal quarter.

CPP Associates is one of many strategic service providers seeing a dramatic rise in the number of customers asking it to provide the “real math” in the private, public and hybrid cloud debate. One reason why so many customers are turning to partners to run the numbers is their experience with multiple vendor offerings. Indeed, one of the hallmarks of the channel has always been to make sure that customers are not “locked in” to a solution that puts them at risk. I

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The ability to save customers money has always been at the heart of the 4 The 25 Top Solution Provider channel business model. For strategic service providers, assessing the Companies: 2019 Solution ﬁnancial/business outcome beneﬁts of maintaining a workload on-premises Provider 500 or moving it to the cloud is the key to success in a market where more customers are realizing that going all in on public cloud is a no-win Storage proposition. 5 Dell Earnings And Stock Drop: 5 Big Server, PC And Storage Takeaways

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