Cloud Computing: Can data transparency be the future of outsourcing?
August 9, 2016
Grazed from CloudTech. Author: Matt Kingswood.
The benefits of storing data in the cloud are clear. However, as businesses are beginning to closely examine what having data in the cloud entails, they’re discovering that their relationships with cloud vendors are sometimes, well, cloudy. In a 2015 Forrester Consulting survey, more than 60% of businesses said issues with transparency were stalling further expansion into the cloud. These organisations are justified in being wary, because knowing where data is going and how it is being treated is paramount. I’ll explain why the next wave of successful cloud providers will compete on these issues rather than price, product or market.
Why is location important?
If backups are vaulted in the wrong geographic location, businesses limit their ability to rebound from an incident within the necessary recovery time objectives (RTOs), due to latency concerns and bandwidth cost. The goal of strategically selecting where data will be vaulted is to minimise organisational risk as much as possible…
To achieve this goal, businesses need to have two separate RTOs in place for operational issues that are specific to the individual environment (such as a server outage), and regional disasters…
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