Plattformbasierte Ökosysteme haben im Kartellrecht besondere Bedeutung erlangt. In der Arbeit entwickelt der Autor ein kohärentes Verständnis dieser Ökosysteme, indem er die technischen und ökonomischen Zusammenhänge sowie die wettbewerblichen Besonderheiten herausarbeitet. Er zeigt, dass...

As cloud federation allows companies in need of computational resources to use computational resources hosted by different cloud providers, it reduces the cost of IT infrastructure by lowering capital and operational expenses. This is the result of economies of scale and the possibility for...

Due to the large variety in computing resources and, consequently, the large number of different types of service level agreements (SLAs), computing resource markets face the problem of a low market liquidity. Restricting the number of different resource types to a small set of standardized...

Cloud computing aims at allowing customers to utilize computational resources and software hosted by service providers. Thus, it shifts the complex and tedious resource and software management tasks typically done by customers to the service providers. Besides promising to eliminate these...