Date: 2013
Type: Working Paper
Migration to the public cloud
Working Paper, EUI RSCAS, 2013/35, Florence School of Regulation, Climate
WANG, Tong, Migration to the public cloud, EUI RSCAS, 2013/35, Florence School of Regulation, Climate - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/27214
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Along with the development of cloud computing technology, website owners begin to consider migrating their website from private in-house server to public cloud servers. In this paper, we use a principal-agent model to analyze the underlying economic trade-offs of such migration and then extend it into a dynamic environment. Our results indicate that the trade-off between market information precision and rent extraction affects the decision choice between private server and public cloud in the short run; in the long run, the rent extraction effect diminishes and the demand for public cloud increases. In a long run equilibrium, private servers exist but are constrained to a comparatively low level.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/27214
ISSN: 1028-3625
Series/Number: EUI RSCAS; 2013/35; Florence School of Regulation; Climate
Keyword(s): Cloud computing Agency cost Dynamic migration