Managed Cloud Saves Money By Cutting System And People Overprovisioning

June 22, 2022 Ron Venzin

For most IBM i shops in the world, a unit of compute, storage, or networking on a cloud or a unit of time for a skilled IT specialist is always going to cost more than what it costs to have such talent in house. And so, you would think, putting an IBM i system in the cloud and managing all aspects of that system will always cost companies more money, right?

Wrong.

Here’s the part of the math that people rarely do, and that we do each time we close another cloud and managed services deal for an IBM i …