{"id":3870,"date":"2012-09-28T14:46:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T14:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/oct\/01\/slas-are-you-trapped-in-the-cloud\/"},"modified":"2012-09-28T14:46:02","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T14:46:02","slug":"slas-are-you-trapped-in-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/slas-are-you-trapped-in-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"SLAs: Are you trapped in the cloud?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Buyer beware<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You would consider it somewhat careless to take out a mortgage or buy a new car without fully understanding the extent of the contract &ndash; so why are so many companies choosing to outsource their entire IT estate without fully understanding the terms and conditions?<\/p>\n<p>Business would dictate a buyer beware attitude when it comes to purchasing anything and this mentality needs to be adopted when it comes to the cloud. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is vital that a company looks at its business needs, ascertains what is considered mission critical, and signs a contract that has the SLAs in place to deliver upon those needs.<\/p>\n<p>It is far too simple in the first instance to glance over a contract and assume it matches your criteria, but in reality, the first draft will usually fall in favour of the proposer.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst you may resent the initial cost of employing a lawyer, in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buyer beware<br \/>\nYou would consider it somewhat careless to take out a mortgage or buy a new car without fully understanding the extent of the contract &ndash; so why are so many companies choosing to outsource their entire IT estate without fully understa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}