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This article is light on details but this doesn't seem to be the same thing as leasing as others here have said. This is more akin to offerings from HPE and IBM
by amanzi 7y ago
This article is light on details but this doesn't seem to be the same thing as leasing as others here have said. This is more akin to offerings from HPE and IBM where you get a whole bunch of infrastructure, but then only pay for what you consume. It's Infrastructure as a Service, but in your own data centre.
Not sure how this translates to personal computing though - typically you're either using the whole computer or none of it. I guess you could get a whole bunch of desktops and then only pay for the 8 hours a day that you're using them? Doesn't quite have the same scalability benefits as you can get from the compute infrastructure.
- jacques_chester 7y agoIt's the difference between paying for capacity and paying for consumption. Which is useful, it opens a variety of potential economies and options for both Dell and their customers. Many customers are fine doing their own planning and dislike being billed after the fact. Charging for capacity is what they want. That is the common case now. Many other customers resent bearing the risk of over-provisioning or under-provisioning. Charging for consumption solves that for them. That's what Dell is adding. It's not totally new to them, EMC have done something like this for some time now. Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, which is part of the Dell EMC keiritsu.