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I work in infrastructure... Nothing has changed here. This is leasing. Dell also has a division named Dell Financial Services that will lease or loan you the ha

• djsumdog 7y ago
  Maybe they'll do small volumes with subscriptions though? Now a smaller business may be able to rent/lease <$5k worth of hardware where in the past discounts were given for big data center orders?
• jrochkind1 7y ago
  I don't totally understand what they mean, the press-release-style article isn't very specific. But: > Customers will now be able to use Dell’s hardware based on their consumption, as a service… For the consumption programs, customers pay for the amount of storage or computing power they use. That part sounds different than an ordinary lease, yes? I'm not totally sure I understand what it is though... the hardware on-premise at the customer for their exclusive use? But somehow it's usage is metered?
• wyldfire 7y ago
  Doesn't a lease mean that you take custody of the goods and return them at the end? IIUC this is much more like a service akin to cloud offerings. Who pays the power bill for the server(s) subscribed to? Is the subscription one-for-one with serial numbers? Or if you deactivate the server and activate it again later could you get a different one?