We study an integrated data center network design problem for Internet-related services and cloud computing, of which the objective is to minimize total operating cost and service delay penalty by optimizing data center location, footprint allocation, and resource provisioning decisions, while...

In times of digitalization, new ways occur to integrate suppliers in the B2B buying process. Community cloud computing enhances the collaboration between B2B buyers and suppliers. However, so far, there is little empirical evidence on how B2B buyers can use community cloud computing to integrate...

As cloud federation allows companies in need of computational resources to use computational resources hosted by different cloud providers, it reduces the cost of IT infrastructure by lowering capital and operational expenses. This is the result of economies of scale and the possibility for...

Several Cloud computing business models have been developed and implemented, including dynamic pricing schemes. This paper extends the known concepts of revenue management to the specific case of Cloud computing from two perspectives. First, we propose system architecture for Cloud service...

Data centre is a facility, which houses computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems. Due to the emergence of data centre-based computing services, it has become necessary to examine how the costs associated with data centres evolve over time, mainly...

The emerging market of cloud computing encourages cloud service providers (CSPs) to deliver efficient and effective services on the basis of appropriate provisioning of service resources. Overprovisioning and underprovisioning of service capacity lead to the wastage of cloud resources and...