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Cloud Service Level Agreements –Issues and DevelopmentMay 28th, 2018
Abstract—Cloud computing is a broad paradigm that has influence across major fields of human endeavour. The unique services it offers makes organisations curious about understanding the cloud and its likely benefits. The cloud offers services such as custom built applications deployed on remote systems and ready to use platforms which reduce the efforts needed to develop and deploy applications for cloud users. In addition to these, there are other services such as storage and infrastructural resources which the cloud also avails to its users. These services are usually provided to users on a pay-per-use bases, thus necessitating the need to have documented agreements in place to ensure a smooth relationship between the providers and the users. These documented agreements are referred to as Service Level Agreements (SLAs). SLAs detail the terms, conditions and service expectation of the users from their service provider in terms of availability, redundancy, uptime, cost and penalties f
Cloud Service Level Agreements –Issues and Development Isaac Odun-Ayo Covenant University, NigeriaJanuary 3rd, 2018
Cloud computing utilizes the concept of virtualization and multi-tenancy to provides service to users. Enterprises can migrate some of their application and utilize services based on suitable agreements. Cloud computing offers four deployment types. The public, private, community and hybrid clouds. The private cloud is owned by an organization. The facilities may be on premise or off – premise and can be managed by a third party. Private clouds are considered more secured. Public clouds are owned by major service providers offering services at a cost to cloud users. Public cloud utilizes large data centres sometimes across several geographical locations. They are considered less secure. Community cloud are owned by several organizations who have a shared common interest. It could be managed by that community or a third party. Hybrid cloud is a combination of either private, community or public cloud. Hybrid cloud leverages on the advantages of the different cloud types.
