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 ...

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 ...

It’s true that time, administrative cost, and organizational maturity are needed to implement chargeback, however, the increased adoption of private and public cloud computing is causing organizations ...

So-called chargebacks are becoming an important issue as IT departments figure out how to distribute the cost of cloud services among different user groups.

While the economics of public cloud may be fairly clear for many organizations, private cloud is a murky area. Because of this murkiness, ZapThink's Jason Bloomberg, who has been tracking the Web ...

Cloud Cruiser's integration with Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1 and Windows Azure Services for Windows Server enables enterprises and hosting service providers to gain greater cost efficiencies by ...

Cloud provides businesses with a great opportunity to get their strategic approach to IT funding in order, says Mark Settle, CIO at BMC Software. Here's his advice on building the right chargeback ...

So-called chargebacks are becoming an important issue as IT departments figure out how to distribute the cost of cloud services among different user groups.

As more companies shift more work to the cloud, they are struggling with a new financial problem, namely how to accurately charge business units for use of the cloud services.