The price is right: Towards location-independent costs in datacenters

Proceedings of the 10th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, HotNets-10

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Ballani, Hitesh ^a   Costa, Paolo ^b   Karagiannis, Thomas ^a   Rowstron, Ant ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

datacenter; location independence; network cost; price

Indexed keywords

DATA CENTERS; DATACENTER; LOCATION INDEPENDENCE; LOCATION INDEPENDENT; NETWORK COST; PRICE; PRICING MODELS; PRICING SCHEME; SYSTEM THROUGHPUT; VIRTUAL MACHINES; WIN-WIN;

COMMERCE; ECONOMICS;

COSTS;

EID: 84855205816     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2070562.2070585     Document Type: Conference Paper

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