Characterizing cloud federation for enhancing providers' profit

Proceedings - 2010 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing, CLOUD 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 123-130

  Goiri, Íñigo ^a   Guitart, Jordi ^a   Torres, Jordi ^a  

^a BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cloud provider; Economic; Federation; Outsourcing

Indexed keywords

BEST DECISION; CLOUD PROVIDERS; DEMAND VARIATIONS; ENVIRONMENT CONDITIONS; FEDERATION; INSOURCING; OUTSOURCE;

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; GRID COMPUTING; OUTSOURCING; PROFITABILITY;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 77957962863     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLOUD.2010.32     Document Type: Conference Paper

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