sense has multiple implementation opportunities for cloud consumers and providers.  The central premise of providing service level management across all cloud distributions (private, public, hybrid) and service  models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), supports both sides of the equation to transparently monitor and control how cloud services are consumed and/or provided within defined service level agreements (SLA) to ensure expected cloud performance.

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Core benefits of sense in cloud SLA management are:

• Manage business SLAs across all cloud distributions and service models
• Use business SLA to control allocation and costs of cloud services
• Implement SLA guarantees for consuming and providing cloud services, while ensuring consistent cloud performance
• Independent verification of metered cloud usage and SLA compliance
• Agile elastic management of IaaS and PaaS services
• Use sense in a as-a-platform or as-a-service model