Cloud computing and electricity: Beyond the utility model

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 32-34

  Brynjolfsson, Erik ^a   Hofmann, Paul ^b   Jordan, John ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SAP RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; UTILITY BUSINESS; UTILITY MODEL;

EID: 77951859902     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1735223.1735234     Document Type: Review

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