SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR ENFORCING A SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT (SLA) IN A CLOUD ENVIRONMENT USING DIGITAL SIGNATURES

摘要

A NIC (412) is provided in a cloud infrastructure. The NIC (412) has a first information which receives least one application message (404) from an application (402) supported by the infrastructure. The NIC (412) digitally signs the application message and outputs the digitally signed message (416) to a network.