Best Practices for developing SLAs for cloud computing
July 23, 2013
Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Editorial Staff.
Cloud computing can be simply understood as a model that enables on demand and convenient access to a shared & collective pool of configurable computing resources like servers, storage, services, applications networks etc. which can be rapidly released and provisioned with service provider interaction or management effort.
Since cloud involves service provides, it becomes quite clear that there will always be partners in reference to cloud services where one would be involved in providing the clod based services to the other. Whenever there is such relationship between two enterprises where one is providing certain services to the other in return for the financial gain then the relationship must be channelized through a standard agreement which can define the roles and responsibilities of both the parties in order to execute a smooth relationship…
Such agreements or contracts in these scenarios are known as SLA (service Level Agreements). An SLA is signed between cloud computing provider and the consumer and outlines the terms, conditions & legalities on which both the partners mutually agree…
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