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Costs and management Deployed correctly, cloud computing will save you money, but there are lots of caveats to getting it right. And with on-demand, pay-as-you-go cloud services, it's critical to write rock-solid service-level agreements to ensure service levels are being met. This topic covers the reliability of cloud services, how to write SLAs to ensure cost-effective use of cloud services and how to weigh cloud providers' service levels and cloud pricing. This topic also includes information on how to build and manage a private cloud infrastructure to reduce IT costs. This topic covers pay-as-you-go services, writing service-level agreements for the cloud, SLA management, ensuring service levels in the cloud, monitoring service-level performance and the economics of cloud computing.

	Economics of cloud computing As CIOs and managers review their IT budgets and strive to cut costs, a cloud computing architecture can be attractive given zero up-front capital costs for hardware and software and multi-tenant, pooled-resources for flexible scaling up or down. Cloud providers claim it also lowers IT ...

	Negotiating service-level agreements with cloud providers Negotiating a good service-level agreement is central to managing cloud-based service costs and ensuring service availability. Learn how to negotiate SLAs to get the benefits of an on-demand, pay-as-you go cloud-based model without falling prey to overcharging and poor performance and ...

	Cloud usage, monitoring, billing, management tools One of the emerging concerns about cloud-based services is how to get the most bang for your buck. To ensure adequate service levels and to avoid being overcharged for cloud services there are tools to monitor and manage cloud usage. Get the latest news and technical advice on cloud ...

	Cloud strategies Cloud computing has become a viable option for enterprise CIOs, who are looking for ways to save time and money. Get news and advice on cloud computing for enterprise CIOs in this topic -- learn how to work with the private cloud, choose between cloud computing companies and optimize your ...

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