Common use of Cloud Infrastructure Clause in Contracts

Cloud Infrastructure. The PARTHENOS e-infrastructure architecture consists of a hardware layer and a service layer. The hardware layer is organized as a dynamic pool of virtual machines, supporting computation and storage. The operations and management of those resources is performed via a set of enabling technologies selected to ensure availability and reliability of the infrastructure while guaranteeing reduction of costs of ownership and a set of supporting technologies selected to ensure secure monitoring, alerting and provisioning. The services layer is organized into layered software frameworks that increasingly hide the complexity of the cloud-based infrastructure.