“Ten Lessons from Finance for [Grids]“
Chelitos, Giorgos; Kenyon, Chris; Buyya, Rajkumar. 2005. “Ten Lessons from Finance for Commercial Sharing of IT Resources” [PDF]. In Peer-to-Peer Computing: Evolution of a Disruptive Technology, Ramesh Subramanian and Brian Goodman (editors), pp. 244-264 (Chapter 11). Hershey, PA: Idea Group Inc.
Technically, it is indeed possible to allocate [information technology] resources as needed and to change this allocation on very short time scales. However, the ability to dynamically align resource allocations with changing business objectives is largely absent. Thus, the principle reason for the slow commercial adoption of P2P and related technologies is that although such technologies enable sharing, they do not help an organization decide how to best allocate the resources it owns.
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