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.

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 ...

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 ...

Wrapping up our series on choosing storage projects, part of the conversation has to be what is more important, CAPEX or OPEX? Almost every storage project you decide to embark on will have to be ...

CIO.com – You don’t have to spend much time around cloud computing before you run into arguments regarding cloud economics and you will undoubtedly encounter the phrase “Capex vs. Opex.” This refers ...

Capital expenditures, or capex, are planned expenses that are expected to yield benefits in the future, such as purchase of new equipment, facilities or inventory. Operating expenditures, or opex, are ...