When free is not really free: What does it cost to run a database workload in the cloud?

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7144 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 163-179

  Floratou, Avrilia ^a   Patel, Jignesh M ^a   Lang, Willis ^a   Halverson, Alan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Microsoft Jim Gray Systems Lab   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD SERVICES; CURRENT COMPUTING; DATABASE WORKLOAD; DIFFERENT SERVICES; END USERS; MEMORY UTILIZATION; MONTHLY BILLS; NEW SERVICES; PAY-AS-YOU-GO; POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS; RELATIONAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; RESOURCE USAGE;

COSTS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; SALES;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84865734779     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32627-1_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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