Cost Accounting for Shared IT Infrastructures

• Main Author: Brandl, Reinhard (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Gabler, 2008.
• Subjects: Business.; Information technology.; Business > Data processing.; Business and Management.; IT in Business.

Distributed client/server architectures are the technological backbone of today’s data centres. A usage-based allocation of infrastructure costs to business processes or users is often not possible as the necessary resource consumption measurements incur too much overhead. Reinhard Brandl proposes a...

Table of Contents:

• IT Infrastructure Cost Allocation
• Cost Allocation based on Resource Profiles
• Experiments: Resource profiles
• Experiments: Analytical Models
• Proof of Concept: BMW Group
• Conclusions.