Economic Perspectives of Cloud Computing
Zhongliu Xie · Utility and Cloud Computing · 2011
Cloud computing is a new concept emerged in the past decade and is widely believed to be the next generation of computing. As I have clarified in my previous paper [1], cloud computing involves both technological perspectives and economic perspectives. This paper aims to extend the economic perspectives of cloud computing with reference to relevant research from fields of economics and computer science. Explanations shall start from analyzing cloud industry using theories of economics to scientific modeling of market operations, combining a more economist style perspective and a more computer-scientist style perspective, in order to advocate a hybrid approach in researching cloud computing instead of a pure computer science approach.