Economic aspects of hybrid cloud infrastructure: User organization perspective

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 845-869

  Mazhelis, Oleksiy ^a   Tyrväinen, Pasi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cost model; Cost optimization; Hybrid cloud; Price elasticity; Steepness of quantity discount

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING CAPACITY; COMPUTING RESOURCE; COST MODELS; COST OPTIMIZATION; COST-EFFICIENT; DATA-COMMUNICATION; ECONOMIC ASPECTS; FIXED PRICES; MINIMUM COST; PRICE ELASTICITY; PRIVATE CLOUDS; QUANTITY DISCOUNT; TIME-TO-MARKET; TOTAL COSTS; UNIT PRICES; UTILIZATION RATES;

ELASTICITY;

COSTS;

EID: 84865378441     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10796-011-9326-9     Document Type: Article

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