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To Lease or Not to Lease from Storage Clouds
April 2010 (vol. 43 no. 4)
pp. 44-50
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Edward Walker, Walter Brisken, Jonathan Romney, "To Lease or Not to Lease from Storage Clouds," Computer, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 44-50, April, 2010.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MC.2010.115,
author = {Edward Walker and Walter Brisken and Jonathan Romney},
title = {To Lease or Not to Lease from Storage Clouds},
journal ={Computer},
volume = {43},
number = {4},
issn = {0018-9162},
year = {2010},
pages = {44-50},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.2010.115},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Edward Walker, University of Texas at Austin
Walter Brisken, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Jonathan Romney, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Storage clouds are online services for leasing disk storage. A new modeling tool, formulated from empirical data spanning many years, lets organizations rationally evaluate the benefit of using storage clouds versus purchasing hard disk drives.

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Index Terms:
Cloud computing, e-Commerce, Computing and information systems management, Economics
Citation:
Edward Walker, Walter Brisken, Jonathan Romney, "To Lease or Not to Lease from Storage Clouds," Computer, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 44-50, April 2010, doi:10.1109/MC.2010.115
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