You might think that users would prefer to avoid chargeback because they currently get resources for free, and implementing chargeback would result in more budgetary outflow. But you'd be wrong, says ...

One of the most controversial issues in cloud computing is chargeback: pricing consumed resources on a granular basis. Amazon posts its prices publicly for all to see — so much for compute, so much ...

Chargeback has been around since the early days of mainframes, and the coming of the cloud has made the process simpler in some instances and more complex in others. Chargeback is as much a ...

While the cloud is certainly not the IT industry’s first attempt to harness cheap commodity computing power “on the fly,” the hype around it has been fuelled by the high levels of uncertainty ...

You’ve heard the complaints many times before: IT costs too much. I have no idea what I’m paying for. I can’t accurately budget for IT costs. I can do better getting IT services myself. The problem is ...