Cloud migration

This book is designed for managers and entrepreneurs, who are considering improving the economics and flexibility of their IT solutions and infrastructures. The book is also for readers who wish to learn more about the Cloud, but do not want to become specialists. This book discusses the technical, legal, fiscal, economic, organisational and environmental aspects of Cloud services. If you are looking for practical advice on vendor selection and certification, as well as real world Cloud project case studies, this is the book to consult. It is the result of a highly cooperative project conducted by six master editors, and 50 authors from 11 countries. The people involved were lawyers, tax consultants, engineers, economists, IT consultants, and a number of others responsible for reviews and quality assurance. The Master Editors were: AKENINE Daniel, ASMA Jörg, GERÉD Árpád, PAULY Michael, TRAVNICEK Reinhard. This book helped me in a very short time to gain an overview of the opportunities and risks of cloud computing, and to clarify some important questions up front. Stefan Wagenhofer (CEO, Gas Connect Austria) TECHNOLOGY* Operational Models* Service models* Preconditions SECURITY* Risk management* Forensics* Secure Access LAW* Data Protection* Compliance* Contractual recommendations CONTROL* Accounting Duties* Tax* VAT questions PROCESSES* Planning* Migration* Auditing BUSINESS* Cloud Strategy* Business Models* Impact PRACTICAL PART* Cloud Certification* Elements of the Contract* Case Studies The Author: Dr. Tobias Höllwarth is an economist with more than 20 years of experience as an enterprise consultant, specialising in IT projects. In this role he supports companies in classical outsourcing projects, but also through complex business transformations, and towards state-of-the-art IT operational models. He is a founding member and chairman of Euro-Cloud Austria, member of the EuroCloud Europe board, and he is the head of the Austrian delegation to ISO SC38 cloud based standard. EuroCloud is the association of the European Cloud computing industry and is represented in 31 countries in Europe. EuroCloud offers both users and providers of Cloud solutions an organisation on which they can share best practices and awareness of high quality services.