Cloud Utility Price Models

Sururah A. Bello, Christoph Reich

2013

Abstract

Cloud Computing’s service models have a number of proprietary pricing models as the services has been commoditized to some extent. The SaaS especially so far has been known with a flat price within the usage time. Pricing models need to be more flexible to prevent customers from thinking that paying same price for a service over a period is no more cost effective, in spite of the level of utilization of the service. For Cloud Computing this has to be taken into account. Africans have a business model with peculiarity. In order to expand the acceptability of Cloud Computing to the African market, this peculiarity must be accommodated. This study proposes cloud utility price models to give the Cloud customer the luxury of different usage style and determine a customer specific, individual, most suitable price model. It gives the customer the opportunity to choose a price model for the predicted usage and work within the budget.

References

  1. Chang, V., Wills, G., and Roure, D. D. (2010). A review of cloud business models and sustainability. In IEEE Cloud 2010, the third International Conference on Cloud Computing, pages 43-50. IEEE Computer Society Washington, DC, USA c 2010. Event Dates: 5-10 July, 2010.
  2. Ibrahim, S., He, B., and Jin, H. (2011). Towards payas-you-consume cloud computing. In Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing, SCC 7811, pages 370-377, Washington, DC, USA. IEEE Computer Society.
  3. Jtmaa, J. (2010). Financial aspects of cloud computing business models. Master's thesis, Aalto University School of Economics.
  4. Ojala, A. and Tyrvainen, P. (2011). Developing Cloud Business Models: A Case Study on Cloud Gaming. IEEE Software, 28(4):42-47.
  5. Osterwalder, A., Pigneur, Y., and Tucci, C. L. (1998). Clarifying business models: Origins, present, and future of the concept by. Tucci Communications of the Association for Information Systems (Volume, pages 1-25.
  6. Rappa, M. A. (2004). The utility business model and the future of computing services. IBM Syst. J., 43(1):32- 42.
  7. Strømmen-Bakhtiar, A. and Razavi, A. R. (2011). Cloud Computing Business Models Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architectures. Computer Communications and Networks, chapter 3, pages 43-60. Springer London, London.
  8. Sulistio, A., Reich, C., and Doelitzscher, F. (2009). Cloud infrastructure & applications - cloudia. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing, CloudCom 7809, pages 583-588, Berlin, Heidelberg. Springer-Verlag.
  9. Teng, F. and Magoules, F. (2010). Resource pricing and equilibrium allocation policy in cloud computing. In Proceedings of the 2010 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, CIT 7810, pages 195-202, Washington, DC, USA. IEEE Computer Society.
  10. Zhang, Q., Cheng, L., and Boutaba, R. (2010). Cloud computing: state-of-the-art and research challenges. Journal of Internet Services and Applications, 1(1):7-18.
Download


Paper Citation


in Harvard Style

A. Bello S. and Reich C. (2013). Cloud Utility Price Models . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-8565-52-5, pages 317-320. DOI: 10.5220/0004350503170320


in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer13,
author={Sururah A. Bello and Christoph Reich},
title={Cloud Utility Price Models},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2013},
pages={317-320},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004350503170320},
isbn={978-989-8565-52-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - Cloud Utility Price Models
SN - 978-989-8565-52-5
AU - A. Bello S.
AU - Reich C.
PY - 2013
SP - 317
EP - 320
DO - 10.5220/0004350503170320