IDG Contributor Network: Building your business case for consumption-based IT pricing

As CIO, you’re under pressure to ensure greater business agility. You need to make sure the business can quickly scale its consumption of technologies. You need to avoid big implementation road maps and switch instead to an easy-on, easy-off method for implementing new technologies. You recognize your IT department has more data center space than needed and more servers than the company can use at any point in time. You also have more software licenses and middleware than necessary. And de