Tailored Fit Pricing is no longer an abstract concept as many datacenters have adopted this new pricing model. For those that held back, recent enhancements from IBM have made TFP potentially more attractive.
While TFP has the potential to greatly simplify software costs the Capacity Planner/Performance Analysts (CP/PA) needs to adjust many of their tried and true methods for tracking – and controlling – MSU consumption. Are you paying too much? Have your measuring tools and techniques adapted to these new rules?
Join Cheryl Watson and John Baker as they dive into this critical subject. They’ve been known to have an opinion or two.
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