Pricing and Profit Management Models for SaaS Providers and IaaS Providers

Pricing and capacity decisions for non-profit internet service providers

Many universities and other non-profit organizations started dial-up Internet access as a valueadded service to their respective communities. The implementation and maintenance of these services becomes a nontrivial task, requiring large annual budgets to keep these systems up and running. The mandate for these non-profit entities is to recover the costs of providing their value added services ...

Resource Provisioning and Management for IaaS providers in Cloud Computing

Cloud computing refers to Internet based distributed computing where the physical resources are pooled at one end and users across the globe can have access to unlimited resources as payasyou-go utility computing model. Cloud service users requests computing resources and cloud service provider provides them as virtual machine (VM) instances. The problem addressed here is dynamic VM creation an...

A Novel Trust Management System for Cloud Computing - IaaS Providers

Trust is one of the most important means to improve the reliability of computing resources provided in cloud environment and it plays an important role in commercial cloud environments. Trust is the estimation of capability of a cloud resource in completing a task based on reputation, identity, behavior, and availability in the context of distributed environment. It helps customer in the select...

Optimizing Providers’ Profit in Peer Networks Applying Automatic Pricing and Game Theory

On the Economics of Infrastructure as a Service Cloud Providers: Pricing, Markets, and Profit Maximization

CLOUD computing has introduced a major shift in the IT delivery model by offering computing resources for hosting applications as a utility. This helps businesses and organizations to access advanced IT facilities offered by cloud providers without the expensive up-front investments necessary to establish their own infrastructure. In this context, significant research efforts have already been ...