http://www.sensiblecloud.com Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:26:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en See Sensible Cloud live at SLA@SOI – showcasing sense, the “inter cloud SLA broker” SLA@SOI, 28/04/2011 at the WTC of ICT Almere (NL), joined by SAP, Intel, ING and others. Receive practical input and experiences around the fast maturing SLA@SOI formalisation bringing SLAs to service oriented and cloud computing. See here for more details on the event ...]]> http://www.sensiblecloud.com/2011/03/slasoi-event/ Sensible Cloud, a leader in the cloud control and cloud SLA management market, is pleased to announce the appointment of Tony Morrish to head up all customer facing operations for the company.  Tony, formerly SVP & GM for Acision in Europe, joins us as Head of Worldwide Sales and Service responsible for all customer facing ...]]> http://www.sensiblecloud.com/2011/03/arrival-tony-morrish/ Sensible Cloud is pleased to announce that David King has joined the company as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO). David brings with him 20 years of top level and innovative business management from telco and software companies. With senior company leadership roles at both large scale global companies like Ericsson and Acision together with start-up experience in software companies ...]]> http://www.sensiblecloud.com/2011/02/sc-engages-industry-leading-ceo/ ‘Inter Cloud SLA Broker’ is a term assigned to Sensible Cloud’s senseTM platform by an industry analyst. The term refers to sense’s core mission to define, implement and to automatically apply cloud service management within and across mixed cloud services through the use of formalised business SLAs.  This encompasses SLA management across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS cloud deployment models from all three ...]]> http://www.sensiblecloud.com/2011/01/what-is-an-inter-cloud-sla-broker/ In the same model as IaaS and PaaS, SLA-as-a-Service or SLAaaS implies the delivery of a business related IT service to provide cloud service SLA management using a software-as-a service delivery model. Sensible Cloud introduces ControlMyCloud.com Sensible Cloud is the first company to provide a solution to actively manage service levels between cloud service consumers and providers as an ...]]> http://www.sensiblecloud.com/2011/01/what-is-sla-as-a-service/ An SLA broker mediates between the consumer and provider parties by establishing the appropriate grade and implementation of service levels for the agreed business service. Business and IT organizations are more familiar to SLA brokering, in regard to the contractual services provided to external customers, partners and suppliers.  Who or what “brokers” the service levels between these business users and ...]]> http://www.sensiblecloud.com/2011/01/what-is-an-sla-broker/ SLA@SOI is a European Union funded research project looking to formalize the definition and lifecycle of Service Level Agreements (SLA) as they pertain to supporting a service oriented economy. The goal of the project is to provide a formalized and standard approach for all service economy participants to the argument of service level.  This will cover the full ...]]> http://www.sensiblecloud.com/2010/11/what-is-sla-at-soi/ Like its ancestors; “what is client-server?” and “what is SOA?”, questions like “what is cloud computing?” are attracting a near infinite number of viewpoints from technology based marketing, analysts, discussions and blogs.  Here we’ll try to put a clear and simple label (with pictures) on cloud computing.  Feel free to join the debate with your ...]]> http://www.sensiblecloud.com/2010/11/what-is-cloud-computing/ For more than a decade virtualization solutions have been maturing, to the point where they are now accepted as a core element of data center operations, and in fact form the foundation of the IaaS layer of cloud computing.  This is largely the result of businesses being driven by the need to better utilize the enormous ...]]> http://www.sensiblecloud.com/2010/11/what-is-virtualization/ A service level agreement is a target of performance and quality for a service that is agreed to by the provider and client. SLA attributes and KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) to be measured for any service is dependent upon the value perceived by each of the stakeholders. Stakeholders include business owners, business managers, IT operations and development, ...]]> http://www.sensiblecloud.com/2010/11/what-is-sla/