6 Things You Need to Know When Moving Enterprise Content to the Cloud

Grazed from CMSWire. Author: Cheryl McKinnon.

Earlier this month, OASIS hosted a forum to discuss standards and interoperability issues for cloud computing. As a technical community dedicated to creating and promoting open standards, OASIS tackles many of the tough challenges that government institutions, private enterprises, software vendors, academics and system integrators face when creating applications and platforms to run our digital economy. Business is global, systems must interoperate, and content flows from person to person both inside and outside the firewall. Sharing and re-use of information is made possible only by letting diverse systems work together. This is the beauty of standards.

Speakers throughout the event — representing governments in the US, Europe and Canada, as well as regulated industries, such as banks and pharmaceuticals — highlighted several consistent themes. One presenter, Sounil Yu, shared his perspectives gleaned from the world of financial services, nicely encapsulating five key points made by several of the speakers…

Five Things to Know Before Playing Securely in the Cloud

1. Know Your Cloud Provider

Understand the track record of the cloud service provider(s) you are considering to create, store or share your corporate content. Questions might be — what is their breach history? How transparent and timely is their communication in case of problems? How open are they with operational practices such as patch schedules, pen-tests, emergency response plans, or employee training? Is security addressed as part of the service level agreement? Are they multi-tenant? Know what is allowed and assess if the other tenants may be a security concern or target of attack…

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