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As an example, much has been made of the move to smart electric meters — instead of your meter being read by a human walking through your neighborhood, the meter itself will connect back to the electric company data center and upload its billing…
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For example, when a cloud application such as Salesforce.com - which tracks targets and prospects through your business development, sales, and relationships cycles-really takes hold in your organisation, the conversation quickly jumps to the…
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To account for the use of the virtual pool, internal cloud infrastructures usually provide a method of metering and tracking resource use that feeds chargeback or direct billing for the resources consumed," he writes.In her research, Yankee Group…
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The time you spent on the call or reading or composing the e-mail is recorded, and you can even set your billing rate for each contract or client. Although I'm a big BlackBerry fan, I found the BlackBerry App World to be just horrible on many fronts.
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Because of cheaper bandwidth, service providers can add value-added services for additional revenues, including security, peak-usage management, content-based billing, and targeted advertising. Deep packet analysis has made its presence in traffic…
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In VMware's view, Raghuram says, a highly-virtualised data centre does not become a "private cloud" until the IT group can provision services and capacity to users on a self-service basis, automate management tasks and chargeback billing to the…