Cloud Economics

Cloud computing has proven to be extremely useful in practice.Both the cloud-service-provider industry and its business, scientific, and consumer applications…

Topics: cloud computing, cloud economics, pay-per-use pricing.

Cloud computing is too often seen as a tactical way to reduce costs, when its most important benefit is as a strategic way to grow revenues.

Although fog computing goes by various names, it can be simply viewed as inserting one or more highly distributed compute and storage layers, possibly…

According to the nist definition, one key characteristic of cloud computing is resource poolingto serve multiple consumers using a multitenant model,…

Just as a real cloud changes shape as it is both fed and battered by the forces of nature such as sun, wind, and topography, cloud computing is continuously…

The Pacific Telecommunications Council - a non-profit dedicated to variety of ICT technologies - is about to celebrate its fortieth year.

The industry has moved beyond the simplistic, black or white debate of whether to use public cloud services in consolidated hyperscale facilities.

Parallelism has many advantages in accelerating compute tasks amenable to speed up.

The cloud can play a role in many different processes for companies that design, engineer, manufacture, and/or distribute products.

The network is a critical enabling foundation for cloud computing, including a variety of scenarios such as hybrid clouds and cloudbursting.

When people talk about "cloud migration," they could be referring to either architecture or operations.

Public clouds can offer numerous advantages over private, dedicated infrastructure, and are increasingly being used by businesses of all sizes in all…

The experience that users, such as customers and employees, have of online services is largely based on response time.

The Intercloud is an emerging concept for federation, portability, and interoperability among cloud service providers.

This column identifies four major generic strategies, or digital disciplines, that exploit the cloud and related technologies such as big data, social,…

With large data volumes being generated through Google search, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and the increasingly instrumented physical world with embedded…

Price wars among cloud service providers have received a lot of press, with providers lowering prices due to reductions in cost structure, but also in an…

The cloud's financial and strategic benefits have been the catalysts for its explosive growth, and pay-per-use pricing, also known as measured service, is a…