Rackspace's whitepaper, 'Should I Outsource Infrastructure?', offers an insightful Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis comparing on-premise versus outsourced IT workloads. It delves into the economic implications of IT infrastructure, highlighting the fundamental differences between CapEx and OpEx, and their respective impacts on financial statements. The document meticulously breaks down various cost categories, including server hardware, software, networking, storage, and IT labor. By presenting data from a modeled company, it illustrates how outsourcing IT infrastructure—encompassing colocation, hosted private clouds, public clouds, and hybrids—can lead to significant cost reductions, improved system provisioning times, and enhanced business agility, ultimately contributing to substa

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