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Table 1. Set of categories and properties for specification of requirements of cloud hosting solution
Category
Properties
Available options
Scalability
Degree of automation
Type
Degree
Time to launch new instance
Manual, automated
Horizontal/vertical
Virtually unlimited/limited
Security
Storage encryption
Transfer encryption
Firewall
Authentication
Authorization
Integrity
Confidentiality
Yes/No
Availability
Replication
Replication type
Replication method
Replication location
Automatic failover
Master-slave, master-master
Synchronous, Asynchronous
Same data center, different data center
99.9%, %
Storage
Storage type
RDBMS or NoSQL
Interoperability
Migration deployment and support
Data portability
Data exchange format
None, import, export
XML, JSON, proprietary
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