Reference : Cloud Providers Viability: How to Address it from an IT and Legal Perspective?
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http://hdl.handle.net/10993/21987
Cloud Providers Viability: How to Address it from an IT and Legal Perspective?
English
Bartolini, Cesare[University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > >]
El Kateb, Donia[University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Computer Science and Communications Research Unit (CSC) > ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > >]
Le Traon, Yves[University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Computer Science and Communications Research Unit (CSC) > ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > >]
Hagen, David[Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF)]
16-Sep-2015
Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services
Springer
Yes
No
International
12th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems and Services
from 15-09-2015 to 17-09-2015
Cluj-Napoca
Romania
[en] Cloud providers ; Viability ; Bankruptcy
[en] A major part of the commercial Internet is moving towards a cloud paradigm. This phenomenon has a drastic impact on the organizational structures of enterprises and introduces new challenges that must be properly addressed to avoid major setbacks. One such challenge is that of cloud provider viability, that is, the reasonable certainty that the Cloud Service Provider (CSP) will not go out of business, either by filing for bankruptcy or by simply shutting down operations, thus leaving its customers stranded without an infrastructure and, depending on the type of cloud service used, even without their applications or data. This article attempts to address the issue of cloud provider viability, proposing some ways of mitigating the problem both from a technical and from a legal perspective.