@article {IJDWM2016, author = {Barbierato, E. and Gribaudo, M. and Iacono, M.}, title = {Modeling and evaluating the effects of {Big Data} storage resource allocation in global scale cloud architectures}, journal = {International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining}, issn = {ISSN: 1548-3924}, volume = "12", number = "2", doi = {10.4018/IJDWM.2016040101}, pages = {1--20}, year = {2016} } <br/>