The Economics of Computing Workload Aggregation: Capacity, Utilization, and Cost Implications
Joe Weinman · IEEE Cloud Computing · 2017
Aggregation creates unarguable economic benefits in terms of capital investment required for service resource capacity; utilization of that capacity; and the delivered unit cost. These benefits offer a series of advantages for private cloud over siloed resources; public cloud over a private cloud; cloud over fog; fog over devices/things, and so forth.