... Because of the cost of parallel IT operations (i.e., cloud and non -cloud) , the shorter the server migration schedule, the greater the economic benefits. These findings, in turn, lead to the following ... creating life-cycle cost (LCC) estimates of public, private, and hybrid clouds. We used this model, and our extensive experience in The Economics of Cloud Computing Addressing the Benefits of ... number of virtualized servers in the cloud replace physical servers in the SQ data center and (2) the length of the cloud migration schedule. Exhibits 2, 3, and 4 show the results of varying these...