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The Cloud's Biggest Risks |
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Tuesday, 24 November 2009 |
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Licensing
Probability: Medium
Impact: Medium
Risk: Medium
"Licensing conditions, such as per-seat agreements, and online licensing checks may become unworkable in a cloud environment," explains the study. "For example, if software is charged on a per instance basis every time a new machine is instantiated, then the cloud customer's licensing costs may increase exponentially even though they are using the same number of machine instances for the same duration."
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