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Sky Computing
September/October 2009 (vol. 13 no. 5)
pp. 43-51
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Katarzyna Keahey, Mauricio Tsugawa, Andrea Matsunaga, Jose Fortes, "Sky Computing," IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 43-51, September/October, 2009.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MIC.2009.94,
author = {Katarzyna Keahey and Mauricio Tsugawa and Andrea Matsunaga and Jose Fortes},
title = {Sky Computing},
journal ={IEEE Internet Computing},
volume = {13},
number = {5},
issn = {1089-7801},
year = {2009},
pages = {43-51},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MIC.2009.94},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - MGZN
JO - IEEE Internet Computing
TI - Sky Computing
IS - 5
SN - 1089-7801
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EPD - 43-51
A1 - Katarzyna Keahey,
A1 - Mauricio Tsugawa,
A1 - Andrea Matsunaga,
A1 - Jose Fortes,
PY - 2009
KW - cloud computing
KW - infrastructure-as-a-service
KW - sky computing
VL - 13
JA - IEEE Internet Computing
ER -
 
Katarzyna Keahey, Argonne National Laboratory Argonne National Laboratory,
Mauricio Tsugawa, University of Florida, Gainesville
Andrea Matsunaga, University of Florida, Gainesville
Jose Fortes, University of Florida University of Florida, Gainesville Gainesville
Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud computing is revolutionizing how we approach computing. Compute resource consumers can eliminate the expense inherent in acquiring, managing, and operating IT infrastructure and instead lease resources on a pay-as-you-go basis. IT infrastructure providers can exploit economies of scale to mitigate the cost of buying and operating resources and avoid the complexity required to manage multiple customer-specific environments and applications. The authors describe the context in which cloud computing arose, discuss its current strengths and shortcomings, and point to an emerging computing pattern it enables that they call sky computing.

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Index Terms:
cloud computing, infrastructure-as-a-service, sky computing
Citation:
Katarzyna Keahey, Mauricio Tsugawa, Andrea Matsunaga, Jose Fortes, "Sky Computing," IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 43-51, Sep./Oct. 2009, doi:10.1109/MIC.2009.94
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