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A Principled Technologies test report 6
Comparing performance and cost: Dell PowerEdge VRTX vs.
legacy hardware solution
With the Dell PowerEdge VRTX, we found that you could achieve payback, or a
return on your investment (ROI), in as little as 33 months (see Figures 7 and 8). This
assumes you do not need to add servers for new workloads with the legacy, disparate
hardware solution, which could give you an even more dramatic return on your
investment.
Figure 7: The Dell PowerEdge
VRTX can deliver payback in as
little as 33 months.
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Payback in 33 months with Dell PowerEdge VRTX
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Difference
One-time initial investment
$30,862.00
$5,055.00
$25,807.00
Monthly cost
$498.17
$1,284.10
$785.93
Payback period
$25,807.00/$785.93=32.84 months
Figure 8: The Dell PowerEdge VRTX can pay back your investment in 32.84 months, so by the 33rd month the return of
investment is complete.
The solution you choose for your small office or network of remote branches
should offer top performance for your dollar. Using the calculations from our TCO
analysis, we found that the Dell PowerEdge VRTX delivered 47.9 percent more database
performance (OPM) per TCO dollar spent (see Figure 9).