On understanding the economics and elasticity challenges of deploying business applications on public cloud infrastructure

Journal of Internet Services and Applications

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 173-193

  Suleiman, Basem ^a,b,c   Sakr, Sherif ^a,b   Jeffery, Ross ^a,b   Liu, Anna ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c SAP Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

Business applications; Cloud computing; Cloud infrastructure service offerings; Cost; Economics; Elasticity; IaaS; Scaling; SLA

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS APPLICATIONS; IAAS; INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES; SCALING; SLA;

CLOUD COMPUTING; COSTS; ECONOMICS; ELASTICITY;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 84866161137     PISSN: 18674828     EISSN: 18690238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13174-011-0050-y     Document Type: Article

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