Abstract: Cloud providers such as Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft are leasing their computing resources to various businesses, providing them an alternative to investing in expensive hardware. Motivated by examples from the cloud computing industry, Professor Jishnu Hazra, from the Production & Operations Management area at IIMB, with his co-author, study interaction between a buyer and a public cloud provider. In their paper, they address the question as to how buyers decide on the capacity portfolio of private and public clouds through a stylized model. They also analyze the impact of the buyer’s demand uncertainty on the capacity portfolio decision.

Authors’ Names: Tarun Jain and Jishnu Hazra

Journal Name: Production and Operations Management

Publication Details: 06 January 2019

URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/poms.12991