Reply to post: Re: Old kit

Google Cloud started running its servers for an extra year, still loses billions

John Riddoch

Re: Old kit

There's a cut-off point at which you're better replacing older servers because the hardware cost is made up pretty quickly in reduced footprint/power costs. If you're running 6 year old servers with 6 cores/socket, you can probably half your running costs with a newer 12 core CPU because you'll get twice as many cores in each rack.

For a standard company, you often have to reckon in the project costs of doing such a replacement and getting budget approvals etc, and that's before you potentially get into licensing issues with replacements. If you're used to simply swapping out boxes on a daily basis and your software stack is free/internal, it becomes a much cheaper option to replace old kit, so that breakpoint of saving money happens sooner.

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