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For frequently asked questions, go here. For other stuff see below or go here here.
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This is the recording of the webinar held July 13 2010 – “The Value of SLAs in the Cloud”. The webinar recording can also be downloaded from here, and the associated slides from here.
Please listen to this podcast interview with Phil Wainewright and Eddie Budgen outlining the change in value and approach for SLAs (Service Level Agreements) in the new era of cloud services and cloud computing. SLAs help make the cloud enterprise ready. The podcast is hosted here by ebizQ under The Connected Web.
This is the recording of the webinar held 1 July 2010 – “Il Valore degli SLA in Ambiente Cloud”. The recording is in Italiano. The webinar recording can also be downloaded from here, and the associated slides from here.
Common Technical terms and definitions:
Cloud & Cloud Computing; Generally refers to accessing computing elements across the internet with no knowledge of the technical implementation supporting the requested resources. Encompasses, SaaS and now extends to Hardware as a Service and Platform as a Service.
Computing resources; the collection of computer hardware,storage, network, switches and routers that provide the raw physical horsepower for computing. Operated with some general purpose or specialized operating system and most often with various pieces of middleware software to support general purpose services to applications software.
Hardware as a Service & HaaS; Extends the principle of SaaS to offer pay-as-you-go access to remote hardware resources
Platform as a Service & PaaS; Extends the principle of SaaS to offer pay-as-you-go access to complete business application computing platforms – HW, OS, App server, database, message queues. Amazon EC2 is a leading example of PaaS.
Service Oriented Architecture & SOA; The general principle guiding modern software applications development to create loosely coupled discrete software functions and expose, call and manage them via open standards and protocols.
Software as a Service, SaaS; the principle of delivering business functionality through computer software accessed via the internet with no software installed on site. The first real example of the pay-as-you-go business model in modern software development.
Virtualization; provides a software interface to completely abstract operating systems from the physical hardware layer. You can manage your computing resource via a logical software layer. The prime benefit of virtualization is better utilization of hardware.
Virtual Machine, VM; Abstracting logical access to hardware resource
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