Reaching for the "cloud": How SMEs can manage

International Journal of Information Management

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 272-278

  Sultan, Nabil Ahmed ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL HOPE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Grid computing; Small and medium enterprises (SMEs); Virtualization; Web services

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; VIRTUAL REALITY; VIRTUALIZATION; WEB SERVICES;

COMPUTING PARADIGM; COMPUTING SERVICES; COST STRUCTURE; PAY AS YOU GO; PERCEIVED VALUE; SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISE; SMALL ENTERPRISE;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 79953855247     PISSN: 02684012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2010.08.001     Document Type: Article

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