To push the cloud, the Stargate needs to be remembered in the top ten questions

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Cloud computing opens up another way of life for people, it resources are ordered exactly as needed, and dynamic and flexible provisioning can be achieved. When you are no longer content with the various knowledge of cloud computing, the mind will sprout a strong idea to open the door to cloud computing, deploy cloud computing, and use cloud services.

In my opinion, for many eager "taste" of the people or organizations, into the cloud computing domain, is undoubtedly the same as the opening of cloud computing This "Stargate" cloud will bring new IT services and business models around the world, all the hardware and software resources virtualization highly integrated into available resources.

However, while cloud computing brings new changes to people, there are many unknowns. Therefore, before opening this "Stargate", it is necessary for us to seriously consider legal, security and business operations issues to avoid accidents.

The cloud computing approach used by users represents the transformation of their enterprise deployment applications, data storage, security specifications, and resource management. The cloud architecture can help organizations dynamically expand according to their business needs without paying unnecessarily expensive expenses.

Whether you're actively looking for a solution for your cloud computing, or just want to learn more about cloud computing, we need to focus on business applications, regulations, and security issues. Only if you fully understand these issues can you choose cloud services to deploy cloud computing without potential problems.

I. Associate with the legal and security community

Another unknown area, into the cloud or the real Stargate, needs to take full account of security concerns. The threat of the real world cannot be neglected because of a rush to "taste" the new changes brought about by unknown fields. Any IT organization needs to be aware of data security issues when it is ready to adopt cloud services.

If the organization is large enough, it needs to have a legal department dedicated to the security of internal and external network data. More importantly, the data usage and privacy policies of the entire group need to be adjusted in the light of the realities of the respective countries ' regions, as it is impossible for IT departments to understand the legal issues related to customer data in all areas of the company.

II. development of data loss plans

It is important to classify data before you start applying cloud services, especially if applications and data are stored outside of the corporate firewall. There is a need to develop a blueprint of what kind of data the application uses and what laws and regulations apply to such data. Also know how data is used in uplink applications, and how downlink applications generate new data.

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Three, try a variety of solutions

It is not advocated to put all the eggs in one basket. My advice is to use cloud services in conjunction with firewalls, and migrate some data and applications to third party data centers on the other side. Multiple solutions provide the most flexibility to the IT department and help better understand how to optimize cloud resources.

Four, start small, focus on the future

When you first use cloud computing, you can put your cloud facilities in your own data center. This is a good way to try cloud computing for the first time, considering security issues and some of the uncertainties that cloud services bring.

In addition, the development team can add functional modules to the business needs to minimize significant changes to the operating environment. Moreover, there is no new security risk to the original infrastructure.

Understanding the Customer isolation strategy of the service provider

This is especially important if you are in a Multi-Tenant data center. No one wants their data, application performance, and security to be interfered with by other tenants. At the same time, you need to ask the cloud service provider whether the workload of the company can also be run on the data center network. If you can, you can bring strong structural isolation to your data.

Vi. consider all data encryption methods

Cloud service Provider Consulting, your data in the transmission and storage will be encrypted processing, they use the encryption algorithm is what? How do I manage these encrypted data? is clear text data visible? Does the data center Third-party service provider cause malicious damage to the data? Wait a minute.

VII. Service providers have professional certification

In the same way, users also need cloud providers to provide professional certification involving business operations and security, industry standard specifications, and cloud computing related service agreements. Of course, professional certification in the validity period, to meet the latest needs.

Viii. introduction of Third-party Security Monitoring partners

Do not forget to ask if a third-party security audit can be introduced when conducting a full investigation of a service provider. Professional security services companies can provide 7*24 All-weather resource security monitoring, and the potential risk of timely warning.

IX. Service Provider Agreement

Fully aware of the cooperation agreement, understanding of service level agreements and dispute resolution. To know the duration of the cooperation agreement, whether the cooperation will lead to service provider Lock-in, not conducive to change service providers and adjust the solution. The interpretation of these questions is particularly helpful in screening service providers.

Ten, follow the industry development to adopt best practice

Once you have selected a cloud service provider, even if you have completed the deployment of cloud services, you need to follow the latest industry developments to ensure that service providers provide the best cloud applications and the most cost-effective services to help enhance market competitiveness.

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