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Renting the hardware is not necessarily a cost-saving measure though: how much of the compute/storage capacity you have is sitting idle in your datacenter? That
by reedciccio 5y ago
Renting the hardware is not necessarily a cost-saving measure though: how much of the compute/storage capacity you have is sitting idle in your datacenter? That's the whole point of finops: you need to have full visibility into the usage of your infrastructure so you can optimize the spend.
- joana035 5y agoGosh, there is job title for capacity planning?
- reedciccio 5y agodo capacity planners buy and sell capacity to scale up and down month to month? :)
- Gravityloss 5y agoWhen does the need ever go down?
- cortesoft 5y agoWhat company has constant load 24/7/365?
- jonfw 5y agoIf you're retail, it goes down after xmas. If you're a tax company, it goes down after may. If you sell a product, it goes down when you go long enough without releasing anything new
- jen20 5y agoAt night, often. For example, I have had a use case where we needed a 1000 node build farm during the day when developers were working, but only 50 at night. Machine learning jobs are another common source of workloads that need burst capacity.
- wffurr 5y agoOP didn't say anything about cost saving but rather predictability.
- tomc1985 5y agoStill amazing to me that keeping capacity in reserve is now demonized
- funcDropShadow 5y agoIt is not necessarily a cost-saving measure, but it can be in some cases. In a project I was involved with, we came to the conclusion that we would pay AWS every three month the cost of the hardware that we would by ourselfs. I am aware that AWS includes hosting and services. Nevertheless that is a very big difference.