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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 Jorg, GERED Arpad, 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)TECHNOLOGYOperational ModelsService modelsPreconditionsSECURITYRisk managementForensicsSecure AccessLAWData ProtectionComplianceContractual recommendationsCONTROLAccounting DutiesTaxVAT questionsPROCESSESPlanningMigrationAuditingBUSINESSCloud StrategyBusiness ModelsImpactPRACTICAL PARTCloud CertificationElements of the ContractCase StudiesThe Author: Dr. Tobias Hollwarth is an economist with more than 20 years of experience as an enterprise consultant, specialising in IT projects.In this role he supp