Mvelase, PSibiya, GDlodlo, NOladosu, JAdigun, M2013-10-232013-10-232013-09Mvelase, P, Sibiya, G, Dlodlo, N, Oladosu, J and Adigun, M. 2013. A comparative analysis of pricing models for enterprise cloud platforms. In: IEEE Africon 2013, Mauritius, 9-12 September 2013http://hdl.handle.net/10204/6985IEEE Africon 2013, Mauritius, 9-12 September 2013Research and commercial efforts are currently addressing challenges and providing solutions in cloud computing. Business models are emerging to address different use case scenarios of cloud computing. In this paper, we present the evaluation of a virtual enterprise (VE)-enabled cloud enterprise architecture for small medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) against EC2 pricing model to prove that our pricing model is more suitable for small medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs). This model is based on the realization that it is not economically viable for SMMEs to acquire their own private cloud infrastructure or even subscribe to public cloud services as a single entity. In our VE-enabled cloud enterprise architecture for SMMEs, temporary co-operations are created to realize the value of a short term business opportunity that the partner SMMEs cannot (or can, but only to a lesser extent) capture on their own. The pricing model obtained from our proposed business model shows the benefits that are derived from using the VE cloud model over subscription to a public cloud as a single business enterprise. The pricing structure of our VE cloud model is up to 17.82 times economical compared to the equivalent Amazon EC2 instance type pricing model.enCloud computingService computingSMMEsVirtual EnterpriseConference PresentationMvelase, P., Sibiya, G., Dlodlo, N., Oladosu, J., & Adigun, M. (2013). A comparative analysis of pricing models for enterprise cloud platforms. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/6985Mvelase, P, G Sibiya, N Dlodlo, J Oladosu, and M Adigun. "A comparative analysis of pricing models for enterprise cloud platforms." (2013): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/6985Mvelase P, Sibiya G, Dlodlo N, Oladosu J, Adigun M, A comparative analysis of pricing models for enterprise cloud platforms; 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/6985 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Mvelase, P AU - Sibiya, G AU - Dlodlo, N AU - Oladosu, J AU - Adigun, M AB - Research and commercial efforts are currently addressing challenges and providing solutions in cloud computing. Business models are emerging to address different use case scenarios of cloud computing. In this paper, we present the evaluation of a virtual enterprise (VE)-enabled cloud enterprise architecture for small medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) against EC2 pricing model to prove that our pricing model is more suitable for small medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs). This model is based on the realization that it is not economically viable for SMMEs to acquire their own private cloud infrastructure or even subscribe to public cloud services as a single entity. In our VE-enabled cloud enterprise architecture for SMMEs, temporary co-operations are created to realize the value of a short term business opportunity that the partner SMMEs cannot (or can, but only to a lesser extent) capture on their own. The pricing model obtained from our proposed business model shows the benefits that are derived from using the VE cloud model over subscription to a public cloud as a single business enterprise. The pricing structure of our VE cloud model is up to 17.82 times economical compared to the equivalent Amazon EC2 instance type pricing model. DA - 2013-09 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Cloud computing KW - Service computing KW - SMMEs KW - Virtual Enterprise LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2013 T1 - A comparative analysis of pricing models for enterprise cloud platforms TI - A comparative analysis of pricing models for enterprise cloud platforms UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/6985 ER -