Challenge Accepted: Applying Pay-as-You-Go in Private Datacenters
Typically, for on-premises infrastructures, the enterprises use capacity quotas to regulate the amount of resources each team can use (in CPUs, Memory GBs, storage GBs, etc.). This approach is effective and convenient when all your resources are exclusively in your own data centers. However, the things get more complicated when a public cloud is added. In such case, using both the resource-based approach in your private DC, and public clouds’ pay-as-you-go, you need to make an extra effort to properly arrange your financial procedures and planning, as, in fact, you need to deal with two completely different calculation approaches. A pay-as-you-go approach for private data centers is a right decision if you aim to unify and simplify financial governance, planning, resource allocation and utilization accountability. An effective, powerful, and flexible billing engine is a keystone for such solution. Maestro has one, and further in this post, we will uncover the approaches it uses, and th...