{"id":89,"date":"2018-07-23T16:55:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T14:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/splab\/?page_id=89"},"modified":"2018-08-24T16:15:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T14:15:38","slug":"cloud-accounting-and-billing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/splab\/for-researchers\/cloud-accounting-and-billing\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Accounting and Billing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world is showing an increasing acceptance for multi\/hybrid cloud deployment models, compared to largely a single provider deployment models seen until now. Concepts such as Edge \/ Fog computing together with IoT use cases are creating a buzz. Currently, a deployment with a thousand VMs or containers is already considered complex. IoT together with Fog\/Edge deployment models, and additionally with emergence of smart everything everywhere goal, the number of active components in a reasonable deployment can easily become billions. The well known processes of accounting and billing will increasingly transform themselves into big data problems. With such a transformation, comes newer challenges:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; how does one balance the competing requirements of multi-step aggregation heavy data transmission strategy with fine-grained audit-ability requirements of invoice\/bill data from the regulators \/ users ?<br \/>\n&#8211; what are the relevant billable metrics for an IoT application with Edge\/Fog deployment model?<br \/>\n&#8211; what is the cost of billing process itself for such deployments, is it cost effective? If not, what will the architecture transformation look like?<br \/>\n&#8211; will secure ledgers become a key enabler technology for our problem?<br \/>\n&#8211; how can emerging paradigms such as FaaS be used to minimize self cost?<\/p>\n<p>By performing applied research around the relevant topic of Cloud Accounting and Billing, we advance the state of technology and help in driving technological innovation. For more information, contact <a href=\"mailto:harh@zhaw.ch\">Piyush Harsh<\/a> who champions this research topic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/splab\/files\/2018\/08\/splab-topic-cab.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-150\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/splab\/files\/2018\/08\/splab-topic-cab.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/splab\/files\/2018\/08\/splab-topic-cab.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/splab\/files\/2018\/08\/splab-topic-cab-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is showing an increasing acceptance for multi\/hybrid cloud deployment models, compared to largely a single provider deployment models seen until now. Concepts such as Edge \/ Fog computing together with IoT use cases are creating a buzz. 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