WHAT COST US CLOUD COMPUTING? - A Case Study on How to Decide for or Against IaaS based Virtual Labs

Nane Kratzke

2012

Abstract

Coud computing is characterized by ex ante cost intransparency making it difficult – from a decision point of view – to decide for or against a cloud based approach before a system enters its operational phase. This contribution develops a four step decision making model and describe its application by a performed use case analysis of the higher education domain which might be interesting for colleges, universities or other IT training facilities planning to implement cloud based training facilities. The developed four step decision making model of general IaaS applicability can be used to decide whether a IaaS cloud based system approach is more cost efficient than a dedicated approach.

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in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - WHAT COST US CLOUD COMPUTING? - A Case Study on How to Decide for or Against IaaS based Virtual Labs
SN - 978-989-8565-05-1
AU - Kratzke N.
PY - 2012
SP - 451
EP - 456
DO - 10.5220/0003880804510456


in Harvard Style

Kratzke N. (2012). WHAT COST US CLOUD COMPUTING? - A Case Study on How to Decide for or Against IaaS based Virtual Labs . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-8565-05-1, pages 451-456. DOI: 10.5220/0003880804510456


in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer12,
author={Nane Kratzke},
title={WHAT COST US CLOUD COMPUTING? - A Case Study on How to Decide for or Against IaaS based Virtual Labs},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2012},
pages={451-456},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003880804510456},
isbn={978-989-8565-05-1},
}