TCO Calculation
13 Jan 2010
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from style of driving, operation of the car, observance of rules of traffic.
You will tell – “Truly! Traffic – dangerous enough piece. Therefore I have insurance and a guarantee of a motor-car manufacturer”. Perfectly.
And now let’s to itself present that the IT Infrastructure of your firm is the car considered above. Car purchase – initial expenses for introduction of an information technology, the operational expenditure – they is both there, and there, the mechanic in car-care centre is your IT Department or the foreign IT Company.
Quite functional analogy. Only small but. You do not have anything that at least bore a faint resemblance to the insurance – there are no external structures which can insure you from financial risks and probable losses in sphere IT. There is no also a guarantee on all “car” but only on some of its details – within the limits of the IT Infrastructure you can receive a guarantee of the manufacturer only on separate components – computers, printers, the network equipment, etc.
What expenses considers TCO?
I hope, the analogy resulted above is clear. Now let’s try understand that from the point of view of technique TCO it is considered at calculation of expenses for IT Infrastructure operation. To begin with we will disassemble “factor cost”:
• the Equipment and the software:
o equipment Purchase – laptops, workstations, a server, remote terminal units (monitors, printers, scanners and so forth), devices of storage of the information, sources of an uninterrupted food, a card of expansion of all kinds, the network communication equipment (hubs, switchboards etc.), cable system, the equipment of a server room, the climate control for it (if is).
o software Acquisition -