September 2012
Intermediate to advanced
391 pages
12h 39m
English
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1. George Gilder, “The Information Factories,” Wired (October 2006). www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.10/cloudware.html?pg=1.
2. Paul A. Samuelson and William D. Nordhaus, Economics, 14th ed. (McGraw-Hill, 1992).
3. Daniel Sholler and Donna Scott, “Economies of Scale Are the Key to Cloud Computing Benefits,” June 30, 2008. www.gartner.com/id=710610.
4. Nicholas Carr, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google (Norton, 2008).
5. Erik Brynjolfsson, Paul Hofmann, and John Jordan, “Cloud Computing and Electricity: Beyond the Utility Model,” Communications of the ACM 53, No. 5 (May 2010): 32–34.
6. Bill Bulkeley, “What CFOs Need to Hear about Cloud Computing and Consumer IT,” CIO.com , June 14, 2011. www.cio.com/article/684314/What_CFOs_Need_to_Hear_about_Cloud_Computing_and_Consumer_IT?page=2.
7. Will Forrest, “Clearing the Air on Cloud Computing,” McKinsey & Company March 2009.
8. For a variety of analyses, see Rolf Harms and Michael Yamartino, The Economics of the Cloud (Microsoft Corporation, 2010). http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/cloud/docs/The-Economics-of-the-Cloud.pdf; Vijay Gill, “Cloud Economics,” https://vijaygill.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/cloud-economics/; or Charlie Oppenheimer, “Which is Less Expensive: Amazon or Self-Hosted,” February 11, 2012. http://gigaom.com/2012/02/11/which-is-less-expensive-amazon-or-self-hosted/.
9. Gill, “Cloud Economics.”
10. Jeff Barr, “Dropping Prices Again—EC2, RDS, EMR and ElastiCache,” Amazon Web Services Blog ...
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