{"id":8878,"date":"2013-09-17T23:24:24","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T23:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/sep\/18\/new-paper-questions-whether-cloud-consumers-get-what-they-pay\/"},"modified":"2013-09-17T23:24:24","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T23:24:24","slug":"new-paper-questions-whether-cloud-consumers-get-what-they-pay-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/new-paper-questions-whether-cloud-consumers-get-what-they-pay-for\/","title":{"rendered":"New paper questions whether cloud consumers get what they pay for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consumers need to be made more aware of what they&rsquo;re purchasing in a cloud solution, according to the latest research paper.<\/p>\n<p>The team of researchers, including IBM and Google, published their findings in a paper entitled &lsquo;Verifying Cloud Services: Present and Future&rsquo;, and aimed for this to be an education for cloud customers &ndash; punters need to examine &ldquo;in breadth, rather in depth&rdquo;, how a CSP performs.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers put this down to a series of issues which need answering: is the service running the right software? Is the service doing what it is supposed to? How efficient is the service? Does it comply with security policies, if any?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this comes down to the niggling matter of SLAs. A CSP puts down an SLA, intending to give the client an idea of availability and performance. Yet the researchers say this isn&rsquo;t always the case.<\/p>\n<p>The paper argues &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consumers need to be made more aware of what they&rsquo;re purchasing in a cloud solution, according to the latest research paper.<br \/>\nThe team of researchers, including IBM and Google, published their findings in a paper entitled &lsquo;Verifying Cloud Se&#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-8878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878","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=8878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}