Cloud providers viability

Cloud providers viability - How to address it from an IT and legal perspective?

A major part of the commercial Internet is moving towards a cloud paradigm. This phenomenon has a drastic impact on the organizational structures of enterprises and introduces new challenges that must be properly addressed to avoid major setbacks. One such challenge is that of cloud provider viability, that is, the reasonable certainty that the Cloud Service Provider (CSP) will not go out of bu...

Billing in the cloud: The missing link for cloud providers

Lifting cloud infrastructure service consumers to providers

Today’s commercial cloud infrastructure service providers offer limited resource elasticity, leaving a gap between the vision of full on-demand/utility computing (“computation like electricity from the power plug“) and the economically or technically motivated limitations of virtualisers, cloud stacks and services. For instance, Amazon as popular resource vendor mandates a lower elasticity boun...

How Do Cloud Providers Elicit Consumer Requirements?

Applying appropriate requirements elicitation techniques is a vital precondition for delivering successful systems. When eliciting requirements for cloud services, however, existing methods such as workshops are challenged and some are even rendered obsolete. Therefore, we interviewed 19 cloud provider companies to understand the current state of practice regarding the adoption and implementati...

Performance Analysis of Public Cloud Computing Providers

The objective of this paper is to perform a comprehensive performance comparison of public cloud services for computing and to analyze the correlation between their prices and performance. Eight representative public cloud providers were divided into two groups using market share: small cloud providers and large cloud providers. Results revealed that these offered computing services vary widely...