Doing so helps in capacity planning, billing, and metering for services such as storage as a service, where data is stored in larger amounts on servers across the infrastructure.

这么做可以帮助对服务进行容量规划、计费和计量，例如存储即服务，大量数据存储在基础架构中的服务器上。

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Metering data is used to optimize service delivery as well as billing.

计量数据被用来优化服务交付以及计费。

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Typically, on a periodic basis, the provider uses the meter service to generate billing data in order to charge the contracted requestors.

一种典型的情况是，提供者定期使用计量服务来生成记账数据对签过合同的请求者进行收费。

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The PTCO allowed DIR and the pilot agencies to a gain a greater understanding of cloud infrastructure offerings for state government and document options and issues with provider selection, pricing, access security, data security, credentialing, provisioning time frames, service levels, service remedy options, terms of use, billing models, interoperability, mobility, scalability, capacity management, provider compliance, and monitoring and licensing.

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