Quantifying usage of disparate computing resources as a single unit of measure

A computing network comprising:

• one or more computing systems having a plurality of physical computing resources configured to execute one or more workloads;
• one or more metric collectors, each metric collector having at least one metric receiver that is configured to receive a plurality of metrics from the one or more computing systems, the plurality of metrics corresponding to a usage of the physical computing resources;
• and
• one or more analysis platforms configured to normalize each of the received metrics.

At least one computer readable storage medium having one or more instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by one or more processors, cause one or more operations to be carried out, the operations comprising:

• measuring a quantity of a plurality of physical computing resources being used over a period of time;
• normalizing each measured quantity of each physical computing resource being used;
• and
• summing the normalized measured quantities of the physical computing resources being used to generate a single usage value representative of the physical computing resources being used over the period of time.