However, there are two
additional approaches to be considered.
First is the truism with which we??™re all familiar??”the longer you wait, the cheaper
computer hardware (and related components) get. According to Moore??™s Law, credited
by Intel to Gordon Moore in 1965 (and proven many times over since then),
each chip will double in computing power every 18??“24 months, each time providing
huge leaps in performance. Today, such performance increases are driven by
increased clock speeds and the introduction of more cores in the processors.
This continual reduction in price and increase in performance characteristics is an
ongoing fact of life in the computer hardware industry. But how can you use this fact
in planning deployment strategies for your organizational system architecture?
Buy what youneed, when youneed it, and plan for the obsolescence of hardware by
recycling it into the organization when it no longer meets the needs of an individual
application. For instance, today??™s departmental server may turn into tomorrow??™s web
server.
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