Cloud bursting: How will it affect your billing requirements?

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: David Linthicum.

Time and again, customers identify agility and scalability as key benefits of using public cloud services. The core value of cloud computing is the ability to provision resources on-demand, as required by the business, and then return those resources once they are no longer needed. While this provides value and business agility, providers are finding that cost accounting and billing can be a bit of a challenge.

The concept of cloud bursting appeals to enterprises that have fluctuating capacity needs. The idea behind it is that enterprises can use their internal systems or perhaps private clouds for normal needs, and when additional capacity is required, they may allocate the extra resources they need within a public cloud…

This allows customers to use public clouds only when required and therefore only use public cloud resources sporadically. While this benefits the cloud users — and is perhaps the core selling point of public cloud computing for them — the ability to track and manage these resources becomes problematic for the providers…

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