When considering locating some or all of your data and applications in ‘the Cloud’, there are a number of questions you should ask of any particular provider or solution.
You must give consideration to how and where your data will be stored when you move to ‘the Cloud’. Some of the questions you need to be asking are:
Service providers should provide you with a Service Level Agreement backed by financial penalties for them if they fail to meet the requirements of the SLA.
Ask for a copy of the SLA and pay attention to things like:
You also need to consider your responsibilities under Australian legislation in areas like privacy, archiving and perhaps even taxation.
Some types of organisations have legal requirements around the location of data depending on their classification under the Privacy Act.
Also, consider that some service providers, especially foreign-owned ones, may have legislative requirements imposed on them by their governments that may impact the security and privacy of your data.
Microsolve has many years of experience delivering secure and highly available hosted services to a wide range of customers across Australia. Additionally, we have helped a number of organisations to understand their requirements for successfully moving to ‘the Cloud’.
Microsolve is Australian owned and operated; our facilities and support teams are all located here in Australia, so we can address many of the concerns that may have been raised in this article.
We would love the opportunity to meet with you and discuss how we can help you on your cloud journey – whether you are just starting or are well established in ‘the Cloud’, we know we can offer value to your organisation and help you on this exciting path.
In this four-part series, we will look at: