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from the no-magic-bullet dept.

El Reg reports [theregister.co.uk]

Whatever choice of hardware you make--on-premises, cloud, roll-your-own, converged, or hyperconverged--don't expect to save any money.

So says Keith Townsend, a consultant, speaker, and writer who El Reg saw in action in Sydney, Australia at the local VMware user group conference.

At the event, Townsend gave a talk titled "When to Select Hyper-Converged Solutions" during which he said "There is no such thing as saving money. You move it from one bucket to another; you'll spend it on opex or capex."

[...]Sometimes hardware [spending] isn't the place to look for savings. "SAP HANA costs $20M to $70M to implement and $5M to $20M of that is hardware", Townsend said. You could argue over the price of that hardware but the real savings come from looking at other aspects of a project like the savings in database [licenses] to be had.

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