Are You Concerned about Cloud Computing – Marketing Visionary, Futurist, Author, & Speaker Jack Shaw
www.e-com.com Cloud Computing — Is it Safe? Is it Secure? Is it Reliable? Some businesses are reluctant to implement cloud-based services because of concerns with security, speed, or downtime. But step back and ask yourself this Is there any reason to be less comfortable having your data in a "cloud" than in your own server room? In managing your IT infrastructure, you should compare your capabilities against those of your prospective Cloud services provider in supporting high availability, continuity, disaster recovery, power consumption, and the ongoing management of technical and physical infrastructure. Small businesses should conduct an objective evaluation comparing internal security, response times, and downtime with the service level assurances of the proposed cloud services and the track record of the vendor providing them. Some of the questions you'll want to ask include these: • Where is my data? When you host your data with a world class cloud hosting service such as DynaSis you get two levels of protection — Physical and virtual. Physically, your data is stored in a highly secure data center with tightly controlled physical access. We'll talk more about that later. Virtually, your data is accessed through a dedicated Virtual Machine. This means that, while you gain the economic benefits of sharing physical servers with other organizations, each DynaSis client has their own Virtual Machine. This means your operating systems access the resources of the data <b>…</b>