A company moves from buying servers to paying for usage. Which shift is this?
Why B is the answer
CapEx to OpEx
Moving from buying servers to paying for usage shifts spending from CapEx to OpEx.
In detail
- Paying for usage rather than buying servers is CapEx to OpEx.
- Forecasting becomes a new skill.
Use case
An illustrative scenario, not a real incident.
A firm stops buying servers, and pays monthly for what it uses.
See it in different ways
mindmap
root((Change))
Migration
Migration Center
Licenses
Finance
CapEx to OpEx
People
Training
Stakeholders
Delivery
Service catalogmindmap
root(("IT spending"))
n1["CapEx"]
n2["Buying servers"]
n3["OpEx"]
n4["Paying for usage"]Key point: Cloud shifts CapEx to OpEx.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. IaaS to hardware
- That is the reverse.
- C. OpEx to CapEx
- That is the reverse.
- D. RPO to RTO
- Those are recovery targets.