A 2012 Forester Consulting survey reported that both IT and business managers have been struggling with the complexity and differing perspectives concerning cloud computing. Business leaders CIOs and IT professionals often make decisions concerning choices on architectures infrastructures, platforms, and frameworks based on costbenefit, capital budgeting or business policy decision-making models. While there has considerable research into cloud technologies, there has been less research into

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... short term and long term economic effects of implementing cloud technologies within the organization, industry or economy. This paper studies the potentials of Micro and Marco Economic analysis to provide better information for cloud computing technology policies