The Open Service Compendium

Economics behind ICT infrastructure management

“…The adoption decision depends on decision factors such as the trust into performance, security, data protection and an appropriate pricing schema by providers (Kett et al 2012;Hernández et al 2015). The cloud adoption must also be supported by open markets, enabling negotiation processes for handling ambiguous selection criteria (Pittl et al 2017;Slawik et al 2016;Filiopoulou et al 2017). From the provider point of view, a pay-per-use model of the cloud implies solving the problem of proposing pricing schemas based on all involved cost such as the energy consumption of virtual machines (Kostopoulos et al 2016;Kavanagh et al 2016;Altmann and Kashef 2014), or it can require new ways for maintaining cloud infrastructures such as community network clouds (Khan et al 2016).…”