![]() Or that their entire businesses depend upon running at a level of efficiency that your IT staff hasn’t approached on even the most optimistic of PowerPoint pitches to the CIO. Never mind that you have a few thousand servers and they have millions. ![]() I mean, you know that Dell PowerEdge server inside and out, and can milk those CPU cycles like a pro. It’s tempting to think that you can run your infrastructure far more efficiently than Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, or Google. ![]() It’s also highly unlikely that you’ll be able to get the same sort of cost savings because, well, you’re not Dropbox. ![]() Server huggers of the world, unite! According to the Dropbox S-1, the cloud storage company saved a whopping $75 million by shifting from public cloud storage “to our own lower cost, custom-built infrastructure in co-location facilities that we directly lease and operate.” ![]()
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