This article organizes knowledge on cloud computing presenting the classification of deployment models, characteristics and service models. The author, looking at the problem from the entrepreneur's perspective, draws attention to the differences in the benefits depending on the cloud computing...

Technological advancements and the amalgamation of several fields, including Advanced Robotics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data Analytics, Cyber Security, Cloud Computing, and Internet of Things (IoT) have brought the world on the cusp of a Fourth Industrial Revolution (FIR). This...

This short paper attempts to lay down the framework and basic principles for the optimum interface between competition policy and infrastructure regulation. Competition policy should address exclusionary and exploitative acts and discipline firms when such acts are committed. In certain cases,...

The EU Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) is proposing a far-reaching "European Cybersecurity Certification Scheme for Cloud Services" (EUCS) to be established in the European Union (EU). According to the latest draft of August 2023, leaked by Politico in September 2023, the...

Die Verlagerung von On-Premise Infrastruktur und Workflows in die Cloud ist schon lange kein Trend mehr, sondern eine gängige und notwendige Unternehmenspraxis. Die Covid-19 Pandemie hat vielen Unternehmen gezeigt, was für eine zentrale Rolle die Nutzung von Cloud-Services heutzutage spielt....

Es stehen mittlerweile mehrere IaC-Tools zur Verfügung, um die Bereitstellung und Konfiguration der Cloud-Infrastruktur zu automatisieren. Mit der Fülle an Auswahlmöglichkeiten gestaltet sich der Auswahlprozess für das geeignete IaC-Tool zunehmend schwieriger. Zusätzlich mangelt es an einer...

Derzeit ist Cloud-Computing eine treibende Kraft in der aktuellen Digitalisierungsdebatte und verspricht Unternehmen jeder Größe viele Vorteile, wie z. B. geringere Einstiegskosten, größere Flexibilität und Skalierbarkeit sowie Kosteneinsparungen gegenüber klassischen IT-Lösungen....

Cloud computing has recently shifted into the center of attention of Telecommuications Companies. Deutsche Telekom, for example, just announced the importance of cloud computing as one of their leading growth sectors (Deutsche Telekom Press Release, 2010). Also other important telecommunication...

This paper investigates the upcoming business model of online streaming services allowing music consumers either to subscribe to a service which provides free-of-charge access to streaming music and which is funded by advertising, or to pay a monthly flat fee in order to get ad-free access to...

The cloud computing model is a modern concept of computation that provides a number of benefits for its adopters. This online computing model has been widely used in the western world and accepted to have some business and economic impacts. This paper provides some basic knowledge about cloud...