To Lease or Not to Lease from Storage Clouds

  • Authors:
  • Edward Walker;Walter Brisken;Jonathan Romney

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Texas at Austin;National Radio Astronomy Observatory;National Radio Astronomy Observatory

  • Venue:
  • Computer
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

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.