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	August 11, 2008 Lease Or Buy? Funding Server Life Cycles Technology And Procurement Specialists Must Weigh In Equally by Brad Day with Simon Yates, Rachel A. Dines

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Executive Summary

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• 1. Why would you lease your server system footprint?
• 2. How can IT infrastructure management aid in the lease or buy decision?
• 3. What are the benefits of the leasing option to the IT organization?
• 4. What are the drawbacks of the leasing option to the IT organization?
• 5. What are some of the benefits of buying over leasing?
• 6. What are the some of the drawbacks of buying instead of leasing?

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