To cloud or not to cloud? Musings on costs and viability

Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, SOCC 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Chen, Yao ^a   Sion, Radu ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Economics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTE-INTENSIVE TASKS; COST SAVING; CPU CYCLES; DEPLOYMENT COSTS; NETWORK COSTS; NETWORK INTEGRATION; OBJECTIVE EVALUATION; PAY-AS-YOU-GO; TECHNOLOGY COSTS; THIRD PARTIES;

CLOUDS; COSTS; ECONOMICS; OUTSOURCING; PROFITABILITY;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 82155203077     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2038916.2038945     Document Type: Conference Paper

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