From the CompTIA Research Vault: Understanding Total Cost of Ownership

[Thomasina Hammond]

As technology becomes more crucial to business operation, companies want to be sure they understand their IT budgets. CompTIA’s report on The Business Relevance of IT in the SMB Market found that the top three reasons for IT budget surprises are ongoing maintenance, required upgrades, and staff time required for operation. As technical candidates build skills using CompTIA A+ or CompTIA Network+, they should pay attention to how different topics tie together so that they can describe the total cost of building and maintaining systems.

 

[Steve Linthicum]

The "ongoing maintenance, required upgrades, and staff time required for operation" provide reasons our systems are moving to the cloud. I believe that move goes a long way towards lowering "IT budget surprises."

 

[Tess Sluijter]

Ooofff, that sounds like a big generalization One of my customers is moving apps and servers managed by hundreds of engineers into "the cloud" and so far the workload is only increasing and there's increased personnel costs. Migration doesn't come for free.