Understanding cloud computing costs in the enterprise « Yet Another (ex-)VC Blog.
Although cloud computing provides financial benefits like reduction of CAPEX and the ability to pay-as-you-go, organizations will still need a reasonable amount of granularity in the reporting of cloud usage and the ability to map that usage into a financial chargeback model that makes sense. Knowing which applications and departments are driving IT expenses is critical now, and will continue to be critical as cloud computing goes mainstream in the enterprise. Therefore, any cloud chargeback solution should integrate with the chargeback framework that the company uses to manage their physical assets.
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