On local separation of processing and storage in infrastructure-as-a-service

  • Authors:
  • Jörn Künsemöller;Holger Karl

  • Affiliations:
  • Graduate Program Automatisms, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany;Computer Networks Group, EIM-I, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany

  • Venue:
  • GECON'12 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

When processing and storage are obtained as internet services, the actual location of the providing facility is undetermined. Factors like a robust and cheap power supply, cooling-relevant climate conditions as well as legal and risk-related considerations are important for selecting a facility's site. As storage and processing facilities feature different economies of scale and location, their local separation is an alternative to combining them in one location. This paper contributes a game-theoretic model to investigate the market success of separate processing and storage facilities compared to a combined approach. It can be shown that stable market constellations with separate service specific facilities are possible.