Options, forwards and provision-point contracts in improving cloud infrastructure utilisation

Journal of Cloud Computing

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-22

  Rogers, Owen ^a   Cliff, Dave ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assurance contracts; Energy efficient computing, Scheduling; Utility computing

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

BUSINESS OBJECTIVES; CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURES; COST BENEFITS; DATA CENTRES; ENERGY COST; ENERGY EFFICIENT COMPUTING; PRICING METHODS; UTILITY COMPUTING;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 84926426323     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2192113X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2192-113X-1-21     Document Type: Article

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