Cloud financials as a catalyst for business culture upheaval

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Chris Dukett.

Chargeback and proper pay-per-use computing, long touted as one of the benefits of as-a-service models, has failed to revolutionise the way IT departments engage with their fellow business units thus far. Despite an ability to use the chargeback process that has existed for some time, companies have failed to take advantage of it, and, according to one study, it looks set to be left on the back burner for some time yet.

That study, a piece of research conducted by Forrester Consulting and commissioned by datacentre provider Equinix, entitled Enabling The Virtual Data Center in Asia, revealed that the financial benefits of as-a-service computing were rated the lowest in a survey of 112 IT decision makers conducted across four countries…

Pay-per-use chargebacks rated the lowest to the question of how important capabilities are to business improvements, and being able to shift procurement budgets from capital expenditure (capex) to operational expenditure (opex) came in second last…

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