CapEx has a longer-term view while OpEx focuses on day-to-day business expenses Sean Ross is a strategic adviser at 1031x.com, Investopedia contributor, and the founder and manager of Free Lances Ltd.

The pandemic has thrown many organisations’ three- or five-year IT planning cycles into disarray. The sudden need to switch entire office-based workforces to remote working means that many ...

Cloud computing is too often reductively branded as an economic calculus that would trade a CapEx model for an OpEx model. But it’s a little more complicated than that. Bernard Golden explains what we ...

Capital expenditures, or capex, are planned expenses that are expected to yield benefits in the future, such as purchase of new equipment, facilities or inventory. Operating expenditures, or opex, are ...

When the University of California San Diego and UC Irvine Health revealed in mid-November that they started jointly using an instance of Epic in a data center hosted on the vendor’s Verona, Wisconsin ...

What are the best strategies streamers can follow to manage the costs of cloud streaming architecture and production and maximize efficiencies in their workflows? AWS’ John Barber, IMAX’s Abdul Rehman ...

In IT these days, many position cloud as a panacea to fix all the ills of a modern business-focused IT infrastructure. This is especially true when it comes to trying to reduce overall costs. While ...

As every person in business knows, operating expenses and capital expenses are two entirely different categories, both on the balance sheet and when it comes to business planning. Capital expenditures ...

We are in an age of unprecedented flexibility in storage procurement. The cloud has been a huge driver, making the concept of pay-as-you-go a norm of far-reaching influence. The fundamental pull of ...

CIO.com – You don’t have to spend much time around cloud computing before you run into arguments regarding cloud economics and you will undoubtedly encounter the phrase “Capex vs. Opex.” This refers ...

Vadim Vladimirskiy is the CEO of Nerdio and empowers organizations to deploy, manage and optimize virtual desktops in Microsoft Azure. For decades, the traditional way of funding IT was ...