Research on Pricing Model of Cloud Storage

• Published in: 2013 IEEE Ninth World Congress on Services pp. 412 - 419
• Main Authors: Ning Li, Liang-Jie Zhang, Ping Xu, Li Wang, Jianhua Zheng, Yifu Guo
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01-06-2013
• Subjects: Analytical models; Cloud computing; cloud services; cloud storage; pricing model; Per-unit pricing; Companies; Computational modeling; Pricing; Subscription; Subscriptions
• ISSN: 2378-3818
• DOI: 10.1109/SERVICES.2013.70

With the development of cloud computing,as a cloud computing service, cloud storage widely applied to enterprises and people's daily life in the form of the public cloud storage, hybrid cloud storage , internal cloud storage. In the current internet environment, the annual investment in providing public cloud storage services is more than ?500 million. More and more companies have joined the R & D team on cloud storage. Because the product differentiation of Cloud storage products is small, the personal preferences of user groups is completed, the market is a buyer's market, and other reasons. Further, the profit of private cloud storage model is also not clear. Cloud storage pricing model has become the focus for the user and vendor. In this article, the authors will be starting from different pricing strategies to discuss the pricing model of cloud storage.