The Least You Need To Know About Cloud Service-Level Agreements
December 16, 2014
Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Esther Schindler.
Do service-level agreements (SLAs) scare you? SLAs are often (and unfortunately) misconstrued as unattainable goals levied on system owners because of fancy dreams that organizations would like to have their customers experience. But that’s not the case. In this article, I explain the basics of SLAs, and what to look for as you and your service provider design a SLA to put in place.
An SLA does just what it hints at: It defines the service being offered and agreed-to by everyone concerned. The document describing an SLA covers particulars such as the level of service that customers expect, the metrics for measuring “enoughness” of the service, and the remedial course of action in the event that the service is not met…
Generally SLAs are drawn up between customers and their vendors, service providers, suppliers, or other organizations. In larger businesses, where departments can work like independent organizations, SLAs can be chalked out between departments as well. In IT, we tend to behave as though SLAs are relevant only to computing, but they apply to most business types…
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