Cloudy with a chance of cost savings

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1223-1233

  Tak, Byung Chul ^a   Urgaonkar, Bhuvan ^b   Sivasubramaniam, Anand ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

application migration and cost analysis; Cloud computing; cloud economics

Indexed keywords

CLOUD ECONOMICS; CLOUD ELASTICITIES; COST ANALYSIS; COST FACTORS; IN-DEPTH UNDERSTANDING; OVERALL COSTS; SOFTWARE LICENSE; WORKLOAD INTENSITIES;

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; BENCHMARKING; CLOUD COMPUTING; COST ACCOUNTING; ELASTICITY;

COSTS;

EID: 84877787188     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2012.307     Document Type: Article

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