risk is placed on the security and privacy of the data. PVI, LoBot, and TVEM provide a means for clients to establish trust … in cloud platforms, thus reducing their risk exposure. PVI is a new management and security model that shares the … responsibility of security management in cloud computing between the service provider and client, decreasing the risk exposure to …

, challenges such as availability, reliability, security, privacy and transactional risk demand detail assessment while forming … SLAs. This paper focuses on one sub-category of transactional risk while forming SLAs; namely performance risk. We argue … that performance risk assessment should be done by the user before entering into a SLA with a service provider. We propose …