Archive for May, 2011

Service Level Agreements (SLAs) can make people nervous. SLAs typically provide some level of performance guarantee and therefore offer a type of insurance against unexpected events. However, unlike life insurance where actuary tables offer fairly predictable life expectancy behaviors when applied to large pools of policy holders, the world of cloud infrastructure doesn’t have a…

Organizations typically conduct a lot of research on cloud providers and enabling technologies before making the decision to embark on their first cloud project. However, sometimes this extensive research and vendor selection effort gets confused with the actual project planning required for success of that initial cloud project. After the decision is made to move…

The cloud marketplace is starting to make a shift, with the topic of policy-driven governance starting to grab more mindshare. That’s good news for us, because we’ve been working on solutions to address the complexities of policy creation and enforcement for enterprise cloud for over 3 years. To provide a small glimpse of that effort,…