Strategic Provision of Cloud Computing Services
Completion requirements
Read this article. Review the introduction to cloud computing and take notes on the aim and purpose of cloud computing. Then read the remainder of the article to become familiar with cloud-based services.
Keep in mind that cloud-based services can adapt or grow to meet the needs of the user. Service providers can deliver hardware and software based on organization needs. One benefit is that there is no need for organizations to own or allocate resources toward Information Technology (IT) staff.
Abbreviations
| AHP: | Analytical hierarchical process |
| CC: | Cloud computing |
| CSA: | Cloud security alliance |
| CSMIC: | Cloud service measurement index consortium |
| ENISA: | European Network and Information Security Agency |
| FSM: | Finite state machine |
| GA: | Genetic algorithm |
| HIPAA: | Health insurance portability and accountability act |
| IaaS: | Infrastructure as a service |
| IVF: | Intervalued Fuzzy |
| MCC: | Mobile cloud computing |
| MCDM: | Multicriteria decision making |
| NIST: | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| PaaS: | Platform as a service |
| QoS: | Quality of services |
| RVWS: | Resources via web services framework |
| SAW: | Simple additive weighting |
| SecaaS: | Security as a service |
| SLA: | Service level agreement |
| SMI: | Service measurement index |
| SOA: | Service oriented architecture |
| SaaS: | Software as a service |
| TOPSIS: | Technique for order preference by similarity (OPS) to an ideal solution (TOPSIS) |
| VM: | Virtual machine |
| VON: | Virtualized optical network. |