Value4Cloud - The 2013 Project Coordinator's View on a Project that Creates Trust in the Complex World of the Cloud

Promoting the exchange of information between cloud providers and cloud users to lower information asymmetries is the basis not only for the wide-spread adoption of cloud services but also for the development of innovative cloud offerings. In the cloud market providers and users make contact with each other via cloud information portals and web-based cloud market places. Unfor-tunately, those portals and market places lack the functionalities and the design elements necessary to effectively lower the existing information asymmetries. The research project Value4Cloud addresses these problems through the devel-opment of value-added services which can be integrated into and used by mar-ket places and information portals.     «

Promoting the exchange of information between cloud providers and cloud users to lower information asymmetries is the basis not only for the wide-spread adoption of cloud services but also for the development of innovative cloud offerings. In the cloud market providers and users make contact with each other via cloud information portals and web-based cloud market places. Unfor-tunately, those portals and market places lack the functionalities and the design elements necessary to effectively lowe...     »