Traditionally, IT expenses have been considered a Capital Expenditure (CapEx). Today, with the move to the cloud and the pay-as-you-go model, organizations have the ability to stretch their budgets and are shifting their IT CapEx costs to Operating Expenditures (OpEx) instead. This flexibility, in accounting terms, is now an option due to the “as-a-Service” model of purchasing software, cloud storage and other IT-related resources. Cloud computing made simple When it comes to cloud computing, organizations now treat IT services as a utility like water: products or services supplied by a vendor that is paid for as you consume it. And while you and I may not know how to build or manage water treatment plants or distribution systems, we assume our vendor is providing us water that is safe...