How reliable is cloudsourcing? A review of articles in the technical media 2005-11

Computer Law and Security Review

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 90-95

  Clarke, Roger ^a,b,c  

^a Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cloud reliability; Cloudsourcing; Infrastructure as a service (IaaS); Platform as a service (PaaS); Power outage; Software as a service (SaaS); Virtualised services

Indexed keywords

OUTAGES; PLATFORM AS A SERVICE (PAAS); RISK ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE (SAAS); SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

CLOUDSOURCING; MAJOR EVENTS; POWER OUTAGE; VIRTUALISED SERVICES;

INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE (IAAS);

EID: 84856472268     PISSN: 02673649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clsr.2011.11.010     Document Type: Article

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