Green Cloud? An Empirical Analysis of Cloud Computing and Energy Efficiency
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cloud computing; software-as-a-service; infrastructure-as-a-service; IT outsourcing; energy efficiency; green IT; green IS; sustainability; stochastic frontier analysis;All these keywords.
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