Cloudcast

Skytap Tames the “Wild West” of Cloud Computing with Cost Control and Charge-Back Capabilities

SEATTLE, Wash. – May 4, 2009 – Skytap, Inc., the leading provider of cloud-based IT labs, today announced immediate availability of new cost control and charge-back capabilities to enable tighter management and control over cloud resources. By providing quota thresholds and auditing capabilities, Skytap enables companies to deploy their cloud initiatives while ensuring costs are kept within assigned budgets. Skytap’s latest product release also includes new features to fine-tune control of user access to the cloud through its award-winning self-service interface.

In a recent blog post, Gartner Fellow and managing vice president, Daryl Plummer, stated, “As more workloads move to cloud style deployment, there will be a corresponding, but not necessarily equal, movement of expenses from fixed capital outlay to operating outlay. But the history is pretty clear on this. When we have variability of expenditures with fewer controls, we can run into overspending.”

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