Performance evaluation for cost-efficient public infrastructure cloud use

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8914, Issue , 2014, Pages 133-145

  O’Loughlin, John ^a   Gillam, Lee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brokers; Infrastructure clouds; Performance variation; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS;

BROKERS; CLOUD SERVICE BROKERS; COMPUTATIONAL REQUIREMENTS; COST-EFFICIENT; PERFORMANCE VARIATIONS; PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURES; SIMULATION; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

COSTS;

EID: 84927745013     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-14609-6_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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