Cloudonomics: The Business Value of Cloud Computing, + Website

Index

A Area

A Average demand

Cd Cost of unserved demand

Ch Cost of a hub

Cm Cost per unit distance

Cr Cost of resources

Cv Coefficient of variation

d Diameter

D(t) Demand function

η Packing density eta

F Fixed optimum

F Fixed time

m Customers, number of

μ Mean

N Network time

n Nodes, number of

p Processors, number of

P Peak

P Processing time

Q Quantity of resources

r Radius

R(t) Resource function

σ Standard Deviation

σ2 Variance

s Dimension

s Length of side

T Time

U Utility Premiums

451 Group, The

7-Eleven

A

Aarons, Celina

Abandonment

Aberdeen Group

Abilities, overestimation of

Acceleration

Access convenience

Access management

Access, content

Access, ubiquitous

Accountability, government

Accounts receivable

Acqua di Cristallo Tributo a Modigliano

Action potential

Actions, competitor

Actions, complaint

ActiveState

Actors, self-interested

Adjustment granularity

Advantage:

competitive

first-mover

market

price

strategic

sustainable

Advertising

Advertising-supported business model

Advisors, financial

Africa

Age:

of Access

of Access 2.0

of Capitalism

of Discovery

Information

of Speed

Agents

Aggregation business web

Aggregation, data

Agility

Agora

Agreements, service-level

aiHIT

Airbnb

Airbus

Airlines

Akamai

Alcatel-Lucent

Alcohol, blood

Alexa Internet

Toolbar

Alexa.com

Alexander, Keith

Algorithms

advanced correlation

complex

equity portfolio optimization

flight and crew scheduling

intelligent routing

neural network

search

software

trading

unique

Alignment of demand, ...