1) Locating reference materials.
2) Any previous published work on this topic.
Your help is highly appreciated in this regard.
Rahul Vedi.
I am very interested in charge back models for distributed
and/or client/server infrastructure. So far I haven't found a lot of
material published on this but you might try starting with the
established research groups, such as Gartner Group (who have done
quite a lot of work on charge back in general, including
some work on distributed suystems), Forrester Research etc.
I'd be interested in seeing whatever you come up with.
Cheers
Bill Bolton - billb...@acslink.net.au
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: 1) Locating reference materials.
: 2) Any previous published work on this topic.
: Your help is highly appreciated in this regard.
: Rahul Vedi.
Hi Rahul,
Working in the area of system management I try to
define an accounting and chargeback system which
allows me to bill services and applications and
processes (understandable for ech end user) instead
of the merely technical usage of the system ressources.
That means the clients have to pay (f.ex. monthely)
for PRODUCTS like
- number of processed application sessions
- number of managed objects of applications (e.g.
patients or employees)
- number of loaded programms like excel, word,
dbase etc.
- number of printed pages
- and so on
instead of
- used CPU-time
- used login-time
- used RAM-space
- and so on.
Till now I have found some articles, which I will
send you after having written down the bibliographic
informations.
Good luck! Dieter Grubner
As I wrote you some days ago I'll send you a list of
articles about chargeback I have found so far and hope
that they help you as a first step for your research paper.
But in my opinion it is necessary to have a "service model"
which gives you the information, which user has used which
service. Do you have any idea how one can build such a service
model? Have you heard about a software which controls a LAN
in this way? Is HP-OpenView or CA-Unicenter able to do so?
In a second step there should be a tool or mechanism which allows
you to determine, which service has which price. To do that it is
necessary to argue the price. But how? In the mainframe world the
hardware was such a big part of the overall costs (nearly 50 %)
that the price could be argued by the CPU-Second (because the
hardware was the bottelneck of the system): If an application uses
10 CPU-Seconds, it costs $10, if it uses 30 CPU-Seconds, it costs
$30.
But in the C/S world hardware-costs are just about 15% (Gartner
Group, see literature below). People in charge of the network
cost much more. So it is necessary to think about new methods
of distribute the costs of the network.
From my point of view that are the challenges of C/S chargeback.
I hope that we build a good C/S-chargeback-team!
Regards, Dieter Grubner
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>But in the C/S world hardware-costs are just about 15% (Gartner
>Group, see literature below). People in charge of the network
>cost much more. So it is necessary to think about new methods
>of distribute the costs of the network.
I attended a Gartner "Pacific Insights" briefing last week and they
are now saying it is down to just over 10%! That should appear in the
resarch notes in a month or so.
Cheers,
Bill
Bill Bolton billb...@acslink.net.au
Sydney, Australia