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Cloud Data Centers and Cost Modeling
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Cloud Data Centers and Cost Modeling

by Caesar Wu, Rajkumar Buyya
February 2015
Intermediate to advanced
848 pages
25h 6m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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Preface

Caesar Wu and Rajkumar Buyya, Melbourne, Australia, 2014

How can we measure the sky? This question sometimes refers to how to measure the cost of cloud computing. For many people, it is a very challenging and tough question. And yet, many C-class senior executives (CEO, CFO, and CIO), stakeholders, and cloud investors would not only want to know “how” (cost model assumptions and calculations), but also want to know “why” (logic behind these assumptions).

Why is this so important? The simple answer is it is too big to be ignored. We have heard many stories about how some decision makers just throw big money into cloud projects without proper understanding of cloud technology and expect to catch up to the “wind” (win). This book will lay ...

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