Leveraging the cloud for green IT: Predicting the energy, cost and performance of cloud computing

35th International Conference Computer Measurement Group

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Spellmann, Amy ^a   Gimarc, Richard ^b   Preston, Mark ^a  

^a Optimal Innovations ^*  (United States)

^b HyPerformix Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENEFITS AND COSTS; ENERGY AND COST; GREEN IT; VARIABLE COSTS;

CLOUD COMPUTING; COST ACCOUNTING; ENERGY UTILIZATION; SCALABILITY;

COSTS;

EID: 84872166362     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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