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Help Define a Standardized Cloud Provider Profile

Here’s a quick draft to get the dialogue started, that we'd like to refine with crowd inputs
By Cloud Ventures
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January 30, 2013 08:30 AM EST
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As discussed on this thread in one of our Linkedin groups, we are starting the process of building a directory of Cloud Providers and also facilitating competitive assessment of the services they offer.

Here’s a quick draft to get the dialogue started, that we'd like to refine with crowd inputs...

Cloud Provider Profile

Data Centres

  • Provides co-location services
  • Owns own facilities: Locations
  • Green Data Centre metrics

IaaS

  • Cloud platform: Open source, proprietary
  • Open API to spin up more servers and then scale them down and only pay for those you use, with an on-demand price.
  • Offers discounts for upfront payment for long-term capacity.
  • Provides billing granularity levels

PaaS

  • PaaS catalogue

SaaS

  • Categories of software
  • Price per user

Technical Support Services

  • Monitoring & escalations: Http status pings and response time checks
  • DNS Management
  • Installation, patching & configuration: Databases, Load Balancers, ..

Managed services

  • Private Cloud
  • Email and Collaboration

Any thoughts to add? If so chime in here or in the Linkedin group

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