… The Journey to Cloud": This chapter defines cloud computing service and deployment models
and outlines many common characteristics of clouds. Additionally, this chapter introduces …

… and services—trading up-front investment for significant outyear savings. Booz Allen Hamilton
has conducted an economic … experience in cost and economic analysis of government IT …

… discusses the concept of Cloud Computing, proposed cloud models and services options, …
computing in Section 2, the proposed models and cloud services in Section 3, the economic …

… Consumers are also turning to the cloud for computing service through such applications
as Gmail, Pandora, Facebook, and so on. The purpose of this paper is to discuss this new and …

… This chapter examines the economic impact of the diffusion of a new technology as cloud
computing. This will allow firms to rent computing power and storage from service providers, …

… The cloud computing service taken for analysis in this paper is Amazon EC2. It provides
a built-in calculator [35] to provide a monthly bill based on the inputs given to calculator. The …

… , and customer service. In this paper, we focus on interorganizational economic issues. …
basic inter-organizational economic models through which cloud services could be priced under …

… A model of the production process for computing services available within an organization
is developed which quantitatively relates input resources and output products or …

… economic model and we discuss the results of cloud compute commodity pricing for various
parameters, such as the age of the resource, quality of service… of service oriented computing …

… By theories in economics, we know that the service quality of a service … service quality will
lead to a higher demand for that service in the market. Also, we notice that the cloud service …