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Whatever happened to virtual machine charge-back?
Virtualisation technology is the current darling of the software business, data centre managers and financial directors alike. Everyone likes its ease of deployment, maintenance, and usage -- but above all, they like the money it saves. The problem is though, how to quantify how much you've just saved. Doing more with less has been the mantra of most businesses of any size ever since the Y2K debacle. Having to replace all those systems, sometimes from top to bottom simply because it was impossible to know whether or when a Y2K bug might strike, was hugely expensive. (continue at source)