Thursday, December 06, 2012

Gartner: Amazon, HP cloud SLAs are "practically useless"

  Large IT departments lose cloud control | What's Amazon's enterprise strategy for the cloud?
 
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Gartner: Amazon, HP cloud SLAs are "practically useless"
Amazon Web Services, which Gartner recently named a market-leader in infrastructure as a service cloud computing, has the "dubious status of 'worst SLA (service level agreement) of any major cloud provider'" analyst Lydia Leong blogged, but HP's newly available public cloud service could be even worse. Read More


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