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A Checklist for Cloud Computing Deals

By Edward A. Pisacreta
March 29, 2010

Cloud computing has become the technology buzzword of the new decade. A definition of cloud computing is elusive, but a working definition could be: “A service offered by vendors with large computer server networks to provide infrastructure such as processing capacity, storage for electronic data and records, software-as-a-service (“SaaS”) or provision of services such as e-mail” (see, www.opencloudmanifesto.org/opencloud manifesto1.htm).

The idea, as e-commerce and tech-company (or tech-savvy) counsel may know, is to use a multilayered network of servers and computers to provide computing and hosting power when needed ' sort of a front-end and back-office supplement and backup system without much of the in-house worries that go with those investments in IT structure.

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