期刊名称：International Journal of Computer Science, Engineering and Applications (IJCSEA)
印刷版ISSN：2231-0088
电子版ISSN：2230-9616
出版年度：2018
卷号：8
期号：2/3/4
出版社：Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC)
摘要：Datacenter total cost of ownerships (TCO) tools and spreadsheets can be used to estimate the capital andoperational costs required for running datacenters. These tools are helpful for business owners to improveand evaluate the costs and the underlying efficiency of such facilities or evaluate the costs of alternatives,such as off-site computing. Well understanding of the cost drivers of TCO models can provide moreopportunities to business owners to control costs .In addition, they also introduce an analytical structure inwhich anecdotal information can be cross-checked for consistency with other well-known parametersdriving data center costs. This work focuses on comparing between number of proposed tools andspreadsheets which are publicly available to calculate datacenter total cost of ownership (TCO) ,Thecomparison is based on many aspects such as what are the parameters included and not included in suchtools and whether the tools are documented or not. Such an approach presents a solid ground for designingmore and better tools and spreadsheets in the future.
关键词：Datacenters; TCO model; TCO parameters; IT software license cost; network; server
