Cloud computing - The business perspective

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 176-189

  Marston, Sean ^a   Li, Zhi ^a   Bandyopadhyay, Subhajyoti ^a   Zhang, Juheng ^a   Ghalsasi, Anand ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Persistent Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Cloud computing regulation; Infrastructure as a service; On demand computing; Platform as a service; Software as a service; Virtualization

Indexed keywords

INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE; ON-DEMAND COMPUTING; PLATFORM AS A SERVICE; SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; RESEARCH; TECHNOLOGY; WEB SERVICES;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 79951515545     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2010.12.006     Document Type: Article

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