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An enterprise is planning to migrate its existing on-premises datacenter to Microsoft Azure. Before beginning the migration, the executive leadership team requires a financial report comparing the ongoing operational costs of maintaining their on-premises physical infrastructure—including hardware maintenance, electricity, cooling, and IT administration labor—against the projected multi-year costs of running the workloads in Azure.
Which tool should the enterprise use to perform this financial comparison?
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The Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator is an architectural and financial planning tool designed to estimate and compare the total cost of maintaining an on-premises datacenter against moving the same workloads to Microsoft Azure over a defined period (such as three or five years).
The TCO Calculator is purpose-built to contrast on-premises infrastructure ownership costs against equivalent cloud hosting expenses. While other tools estimate specific cloud meters or monitor already-deployed cloud infrastructure, only the TCO Calculator models the broader operating expenditures of an existing physical datacenter.