How Can You Measure a Cloud?
April 5, 2014
Grazed from MSPMentor. Author: Michael Brown.
Return on investment (ROI) has been a common performance measurement tool for companies for decades. However, now it’s come to the attention of numerous companies that perhaps a new variation of ROI will be needed to accompany the arrival of cloud computing. From this piece over at Forbes: “A new survey of 350 senior IT executives finds 16 percent see measuring ROI as a hurdle to their cloud computing implementations”
Traditional ROI is based upon the hard monetary return on the purchase and use of products or services. However, the long term gains from the cloud are not always so easily calculated in a purely financial way…
Such long term gains which are unable to be measured by using a traditional ROI formula:…
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