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Business Models and Billing Challenges

Business Models and Billing Challenges

Javier Martínez Elicegui, Lei Xu, Emilio García Escobar
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 13
ISBN13: 9781466639348|ISBN10: 1466639342|EISBN13: 9781466639355
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3934-8.ch004
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Elicegui, Javier Martínez, et al. "Business Models and Billing Challenges." Data Intensive Storage Services for Cloud Environments, edited by Dimosthenis Kyriazis, et al., IGI Global, 2013, pp. 47-59. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3934-8.ch004

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Elicegui, J. M., Xu, L., & Escobar, E. G. (2013). Business Models and Billing Challenges. In D. Kyriazis, A. Voulodimos, S. Gogouvitis, & T. Varvarigou (Eds.), Data Intensive Storage Services for Cloud Environments (pp. 47-59). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3934-8.ch004

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Elicegui, Javier Martínez, Lei Xu, and Emilio García Escobar. "Business Models and Billing Challenges." In Data Intensive Storage Services for Cloud Environments, edited by Dimosthenis Kyriazis, et al., 47-59. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3934-8.ch004

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Abstract

The advent of the Cloud has leveraged a number of challenges, both for customers and service providers. Companies willing to embrace the new paradigm must face some entrance barriers, such as security, privacy and trust concerns, vendor locking risk, legal issues, etc. While service providers may work to minimize these barriers, they must be especially careful when defining what may constitute the most crucial aspect for the success of their offerings: the business model. Different incarnations of the cloud (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) add to the possibility of offering public or private solutions, or even federated models. On top of this is the billing strategy: the ubiquitous pay-per-use approach (either in its most common post-paid incarnation, or in a novel pre-paid version) is only the starting point for a wide range of innovative solutions, including bundling or QoS considerations, which European project VISION Cloud is tackling as part of its research efforts. This chapter aims to provide a comprehensive discussion on the most relevant business factors that the Cloud confronts.

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