Some key points for enterprises to choose cloud service providers

As cloud computing continues to warm up in 2012, cloud computing is moving into the eyes of corporate users, and cloud computing is another big change after the 1980 mainframe to client-server transformation. In the March 2006, Amazon launched the flexible computing cloud services, but also the cloud of the hungry curtain opened. Today, cloud computing has been used in companies, many companies are testing water cloud computing, corporate demand for cloud services is rising.

&http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/37954.html ">nbsp; For a large number of cloud service providers, enterprises should be through those several aspects to choose a suitable cloud service provider? We give three aspects of the three points can be integrated into the cloud service provider: The first aspect can be based on the visibility of the enterprise and the level of trust to weigh, the second can be supervised to ensure that the cloud service providers effective protection of sensitive data and end-user protection. The third aspect, the enterprise may through to cloud service provider's specialized technical knowledge is skilled and the cloud service provider whether understands the enterprise the related business to make the choice.

The problem of data security in the cloud has always been an important concern of the enterprise, but before the enterprise cooperated with the cloud supplier, few enterprises conducted a comprehensive review of the data security of cloud service providers, and as a large number of new cloud service providers began to enter the field, When choosing a cloud service provider, an enterprise should ask the cloud service provider about how to build and provide services.

For enterprises to choose cloud service providers, but also issued relevant standards for consideration, enterprises can pass three unified certification standards for control-oriented, to help enterprises choose cloud services Provider.

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First of all, to ensure the security of users access to data, users need to be in the vendor and customer-related policies and procedures above the foundation can be granted authority, and then the supplier must have a written administrator identity certification policy, as well as the supplier and third party access policy records and subject management review. The final supplier must have a third-party assessment of the supplier or customer information system.

Second, the cloud provider must ensure that it has sufficient information security policies and procedures and that these can be effectively run. Stringent policies and procedures are required each year to review and approve updates and data back-up retention policies, which are ultimately communicated to the supplier.

Finally, after determining the security of data provided by the cloud service provider, the enterprise also needs to understand the financial status of the cloud provider, ensure that the provider is profitable at least within six months, and if it is a start-up, it must ensure its stability when there is not enough capital chain to support.

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