Pricing in infrastructure clouds - An analytical and empirical examination

20th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Lampe, Ulrich ^a   Hans, Ronny ^a   Seliger, Marco ^a   Pauly, Michael ^b   Schiefer, Michael ^b  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b T SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Analytical; Cloud computing; Empirical; Examination; Iaas; Infrastructure; Mechanism; Pricing; Scheme; Study

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; COMMERCE; COSTS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MECHANISMS;

ANALYTICAL; EMPIRICAL; EXAMINATION; IAAS; INFRASTRUCTURE; SCHEME; STUDY;

INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE (IAAS);

EID: 84905964316     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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