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.

Over the last few years, a shift has taken place with respect to CIOs’ outlook to opex vs capex debate. Large enterprises today prefer opex to capex for long-term projects. The reason is ...

Purchasing decisions in networking have long been dominated, especially on the non-provider side, by CapEx. At one point, Cisco had commissioned a study from IDC that indicated just under two-thirds ...

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 ...

Odd as it may seem to startup entrepreneurs these days, there was a time that if you wanted to start a Web-based company, you had to think about physical facilities, network pipes, and buying your own ...

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 ...

Cloud vendors tout the benefits of paying for cloud services as operating expenses, rather than raising capital funds for infrastructure projects on campus. But the calculus is not as simple as that.

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 ...

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 ...

When organizational budget cuts come, IT departments are often the first to get squeezed. This puts them in the unfortunate position of always looking for new and innovative ways to save on capital ...

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has published the National Broadband Network (NBN) company's FY16 regulatory documents, revealing that it more than doubled its capital ...