Systematic analysis of public cloud service level agreements and related business values

Proceedings - IEEE 10th International Conference on Services Computing, SCC 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 729-736

  Qiu, Meng Maggie ^a   Zhou, Ying ^a   Wang, Chen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Business Value; Cloud Computing; Service Level Agreement

Indexed keywords

BEST PRACTICES; BUSINESS VALUE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CUSTOMER SUPPORT; DATA PROTECTION; PUBLIC CLOUDS; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS;

CLOUD COMPUTING; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 84891921487     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SCC.2013.24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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