It’s interesting with Google’s announcement today in which they are being disruptive of the cloud computing pricing (thanks to Brian Goldfarb!), the old school companies like IBM are being increasingly left in the dust. The indomitable Charles Fitzgerald wrote this amusing analysis, comparing IBM’s and Google’s capex spending on datacenters: “IBM today announced new datacenter investment plans to bolster its cloud computing presence. They’re going to spend $1.2 billion to build 15 new datacenters. After some consultation with the Twitterati on matters of long division, it appears IBM is going to spend a whopping $80 million per datacenter. That may sound impressive until you consider that the big boys in cloud can spend half a billion or more per datacenter. Google’s most recently reported quarterly capex was $2.29 billion.” platformonomics/2014/01/small-blue-and-the-bonsai-datacenter/
Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 04:12:01 +0000
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