Trending: Subscription Models
The majority of IT expenditures have long been recurring expenses. If a digital product is needed, it can be ordered quickly. A few clicks are all it takes to get the new server or software up and running. The nasty surprise comes much later, when one thing becomes clear: the portfolio contains countless unused or little-used services that, in the worst case, are also difficult to cancel.
Cloud Computing: The dark side of the cloud
Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure offer new customers generous welcome credits, and it doesn't take long to get comfortable in the cloud. The cost clock only starts ticking later, and so it happens that you are only confronted with the actual and sometimes high costs when you scale up. Cloud computing is indispensable in many places, but whether every service has to run on AWS and Co. and whether your own software has cost problems: Let's find out together with our IT cost check.