Group items tagged

Privileged user access

Regulatory compliance

Data location

Ask providers if they will commit to storing and processing data in specific jurisdictions

Any offering that does not replicate the data and application infrastructure across multiple sites is vulnerable to a total failure

Investigative support

Investigating inappropriate or illegal activity may be impossible in cloud computing

Long-term viability

Ideally, your cloud computing provider will never go broke or get acquired and swallowed up by a larger company. But you must be sure your data will remain available even after such an event.