BTC Insight » Reliability http://blog.btclogic.com The BTC Logic Team Blog Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:27:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Cloud SLA Standards http://blog.btclogic.com/cloud-sla-standards/ http://blog.btclogic.com/cloud-sla-standards/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:37:10 +0000 Charlton http://blog.btclogic.com/?p=27 SLAs and security go together; each is meaningless without the other. As the cloud computing market matures, vendors will differentiate themselves by the security features (and other SLA details) they provide. The spectacular failure of Sidekick/Microsoft-Danger; Amazon and Google’s outages; and the shrug-and-grin policy of Yahoo! are all examples of cloud FAILs due to weak or non-existent SLAs. Referencing existing (i.e., pre-cloud and non-cloud) standards for security, auditability, data retention and destruction, reliability, availability, etc., is an unambiguous way of specifying exactly what the vendor will provide and exactly what the consumer can expect.

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