Computing Cost Paradigms Have Shifted Dramatically — Have Your Management Techniques?
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There has been a fundamental, technology-driven switch in computing costs from fixed and step costs to marginal costs. This trend has accelerated over the last five years and it is necessitating a change in the way many businesses make decisions and manage their computing costs. It will eventually impact everything from pricing strategy, to cost management, corporate reporting structures, security analysis and financial reporting. So, basically everything. Unfortunately most companies are managing computing costs using outdated paradigms, toolsets, and organizational structures and missing out on a lot of bottom line profit in the process.