Insights & Innovation

A pay-as-you-go, consumption-based IT cost model is emerging as a major disrupter to the traditional view of IT as a capital expenditure — here's how it plays out in the boardroom, for CFOs and CIOs alike.

We never know the future, and decision making means dealing with that uncertainty. Monte Carlo-style payoff matrices, familiar from financial planning, can help business leaders evaluate decisions across thousands of possible futures.

Creating data sets that adequately test software is usually the last thing on everyone's mind — but with the cloud making infrastructure costs transparent, simulated data becomes essential to understanding transactional costs.

IT is not always a cost center, especially when it is instrumental for revenue. For companies selling digital goods, infrastructure costs behave more like a Cost of Goods Sold.

Hourly costs are easy to understand, but companies using cloud infrastructures have to decide when to use an on-demand instance vs a reserved instance and commit to a time period.