<sod>Romonet was founded in 2006 by Zahl Limbuwala and Liam Newcombe initially to answer the question of how much data centers really cost to operate. Newcombe made this statement concerning IT cost, "The business is effectively prevented from managing operating costs or understanding the contribution to profitability." <ref>[http://www.romonet.com/white-paper-library Romonet website, Romonet University, 'How the corporate data center has become a cost black hole', pg5, para. 2]</ref> In 2009 they collaborated to release an open source engine with the [[British Computer Society]]’s [http://dcsg.bcs.org/ Data Centre Specialist Group].<ref>[http://www.katescomment.com/bcs-data-center-simulator/ www.katescomment.com, 'BCS Data Centre Cost and Energy Simulator Beta Released', 28 May 2009]</ref> Though the simulator was at an early stage, it was able to predict cost and power usage.<ref>[http://www.katescomment.com/bcs-data-center-simulator/ Ibid.]</ref><eod>
<sod>Romonet was founded in 2006 by Zahl Limbuwala and Liam Newcombe—initially to make software to analyze how much data centers cost to operate. Newcombe said, of IT cost, "The business is effectively prevented from managing operating costs or understanding the contribution to profitability." <ref>[http://www.romonet.com/white-paper-library Romonet website, Romonet University, 'How the corporate data center has become a cost black hole', pg5, para. 2]</ref> In 2009 they collaborated to release an open source engine with the [[British Computer Society]]’s [http://dcsg.bcs.org/ Data Centre Specialist Group].<ref>[http://www.katescomment.com/bcs-data-center-simulator/ www.katescomment.com, 'BCS Data Centre Cost and Energy Simulator Beta Released', 28 May 2009]</ref> Though the simulator was at an early stage, it was able to predict cost and power usage.<ref>[http://www.katescomment.com/bcs-data-center-simulator/ Ibid.]</ref><eod>