Title
An approach for economic evaluation of cloud-based applications
Abstract
This paper links the economic cost of the cloud infrastructure to the business model of an internet-based company in order to evaluate costs and benefits of web applications. To this end, performance models and indexes related to the usage of the main system resources (i.e. processor, memory, storage and network bandwidth) have been reformulated to include new useful metrics for business management, such as customer abandonments and service costs. With the aim of showing practical application of the proposed evaluation study, a typical e-commerce scenario has been considered. Experimental results show that, our approach allows internet-based companies to estimate more accurately the cost of adopting a particular cloud configuration, both in terms of cost of infrastructure and cost of losing customers due to performance degradation. Consequently, it permits to appraise the viability of business decisions, such as promotions and expansion strategies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/CloudNet.2014.6969009
Cloud Networking
Keywords
Field
DocType
Internet,cloud computing,economics,electronic commerce,Internet-based company,Web application,business decisions,business management,business model,cloud infrastructure,cloud-based application,e-commerce,electronic commerce,Cloud computing,economic evaluation,performance analysis
Electronic business,Computer security,Computer science,Economic evaluation,Cloud computing security,Cloud computing
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2374-3239
1
0.36
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Raúl Peña-Ortiz1205.07
Josep Domènech2526.46
José A. Gil38812.60
Ana Pont416522.70
Pena-Ortiz, R.510.36