Economic model of a Cloud provider operating in a federated Cloud

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 827-843

  Goiri, Íñigo ^a   Guitart, Jordi ^a   Torres, Jordi ^a  

^a BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cloud provider; Federation; Outsourcing; Profit

Indexed keywords

CLOUD PROVIDERS; DEMAND VARIATIONS; ECONOMIC MODELS; ENVIRONMENT CONDITIONS; FEDERATION; HIGH VARIABILITY; INSOURCING; OUTSOURCE; RESOURCE PROVISIONING;

COMPUTER NETWORKS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OUTSOURCING;

PROFITABILITY;

EID: 84865390147     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10796-011-9325-x     Document Type: Article

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