Building a Knowledge Base for Guiding Users through the Cloud Life Cycle

Claudio Giovanoli, Stella Gatziu Grivas

2013

Abstract

Cloud Computing is still a hype to provide IT services as customers demand. Especially small and medium size businesses can benefit of this new trend because of the flexibility Cloud Computing provides for the consumption of its services. Nevertheless the step into the cloud must be carefully prepared and setup to ensure a successful usage and an appropriate return on investment. Currently the lack of experience with cloud projects and the uncertainty of its predestined application areas are detaining companies to use cloud computing services. No best practices, rules and use cases are in place yet to help to convince potential users to go their way to the cloud. With the CLiCk project the authors therefore propose a personalized web-based platform for Small and Medium Enterprises to support them over an entire Cloud Life Cycle.

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in Harvard Style

Giovanoli C. and Gatziu Grivas S. (2013). Building a Knowledge Base for Guiding Users through the Cloud Life Cycle . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-8565-52-5, pages 131-134. DOI: 10.5220/0004375401310134


in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer13,
author={Claudio Giovanoli and Stella Gatziu Grivas},
title={Building a Knowledge Base for Guiding Users through the Cloud Life Cycle},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2013},
pages={131-134},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004375401310134},
isbn={978-989-8565-52-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - Building a Knowledge Base for Guiding Users through the Cloud Life Cycle
SN - 978-989-8565-52-5
AU - Giovanoli C.
AU - Gatziu Grivas S.
PY - 2013
SP - 131
EP - 134
DO - 10.5220/0004375401310134