Technical support and IT capacity demand: Evidence from the cloud

International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2012

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 1343-1359

  Retana, German ^a   Forman, Chris ^a   Narasimhan, Sridhar ^a   Niculescu, Marius Florin ^a   Wu, D J ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; IS economics; IT infrastructure; IT services; Technical support

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS NEEDS; CAPACITY DEMANDS; CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURES; COMPLEX INFRASTRUCTURES; IT INFRASTRUCTURES; IT SERVICES; PERCENTAGE POINTS; TECHNICAL SUPPORT;

CLOUD COMPUTING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

SALES;

EID: 84886548078     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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