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The office of the CIO is under constant pressure to meet the financial expectations of executive management by continually lowering the life-cycle cost of the computing infrastructure without sacrificing any of the expected feature/functionality. When it comes to big-ticket infrastructure investments like servers, the decision to lease or buy is always a big one. While the CFO should make the final decision, the IT infrastructure organization plays a strong hand in influencing the lease or buy decision. Improving the infrastructure life-cycle cost structures means improving the four major categories of cost: the cost to acquire, maintain, retire, and finance.

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