To lease or not to lease from storage clouds

Computer

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 44-50

  Walker, Edward ^a   Brisken, Walter ^b   Romney, Jonathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Computing and information systems management; E Commerce; Economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951045853     PISSN: 00189162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MC.2010.115     Document Type: Article

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