Power, politics, and MIS implementation
Communications of the ACM
Information systems and organizational change
Communications of the ACM
Hunting for the Treasure at the End of theRainbow: Standardizing corporate IT Infrastructure
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Unified Modeling Language User Guide, The (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)
Unified Modeling Language User Guide, The (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)
Energy-aware server provisioning and load dispatching for connection-intensive internet services
NSDI'08 Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
The cost of doing science on the cloud: the Montage example
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
A break in the clouds: towards a cloud definition
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
CTO Roundtable: Cloud Computing
Communications of the ACM - A Blind Person's Interaction with Technology
Computer
Evaluating the cost-benefit of using cloud computing to extend the capacity of clusters
Proceedings of the 18th ACM international symposium on High performance distributed computing
Deriving Information Requirements from Responsibility Models
CAiSE '09 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Cost-benefit analysis of Cloud Computing versus desktop grids
IPDPS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel&Distributed Processing
The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines
The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines
Hey, you, get off of my cloud: exploring information leakage in third-party compute clouds
Proceedings of the 16th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Toward energy-efficient computing
Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM
Cloud Migration: A Case Study of Migrating an Enterprise IT System to IaaS
CLOUD '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing
CloudGenius: decision support for web server cloud migration
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on World Wide Web
A cost model for hybrid clouds
GECON'11 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services
Special section: software architectures and application development environments for Cloud computing
Software—Practice & Experience
Cloud services evaluation framework
Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Source and Design of Communication
Pricing of insurance policies against cloud storage price rises
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
Algebraic Specifications of Computing as a Service with Applications to Cost Analysis
UCC '12 Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/ACM Fifth International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing
Specification and quantitative analysis of probabilistic cloud deployment patterns
HVC'11 Proceedings of the 7th international Haifa Verification conference on Hardware and Software: verification and testing
log2cloud: log-based prediction of cost-performance trade-offs for cloud deployments
Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
A conceptual framework for delivering cost effective business intelligence solutions as a service
Proceedings of the South African Institute for Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Conference
Role of acquisition intervals in private and public cloud storage costs
Decision Support Systems
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Cloud computing promises a radical shift in the provisioning of computing resources within the enterprise. This paper describes the challenges that decision makers face when assessing the feasibility of the adoption of cloud computing in their organizations, and describes our Cloud Adoption Toolkit, which has been developed to support this process. The toolkit provides a framework to support decision makers in identifying their concerns, and matching these concerns to appropriate tools/techniques that can be used to address them. Cost Modeling is the most mature tool in the toolkit, and this paper shows its effectiveness by demonstrating how practitioners can use it to examine the costs of deploying their IT systems on the cloud. The Cost Modeling tool is evaluated using a case study of an organization that is considering the migration of some of its IT systems to the cloud. The case study shows that running systems on the cloud using a traditional ‘always on’ approach can be less cost effective, and the elastic nature of the cloud has to be used to reduce costs. Therefore, decision makers have to model the variations in resource usage and their systems' deployment options to obtain accurate cost estimates. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.