Public Clouds Not Taking Care of Business? Time to Go Private

Grazed from MidsizeInsider. Author: Melissa Busch.

Many companies that have utilized public clouds have likely moved on from the experimental, "getting acquainted" stage of their relationship and may be aiming to fully commit to each other with mass migration, according to an article from InfoWorld.

It’s Not Me, It’s You

As the relationship between companies and their clouds evolves, organizations grow choosier about the services being delivered, and certain issues start to create static between them. When high prices, substandard services or poor security become major detriments to the relationship, it may be time to start looking for a new public cloud vendor…

According to the InfoWorld piece, firms should consider turning to another provider if vendors are increasing prices while reducing services, providing slower storage and computing services or if customers are dealing with more outages. Security should also be a consideration. Vendors that store data without identity-based security and advanced encryption or have third parties handle security issues are likely not providing the safest environment. Even those organizations that are content with their clouds should look around to see whether other vendors are providing any additional value. Although private clouds are not a simple or cheap endeavor, midsize firms may want to consider abandoning public clouds altogether in favor of private…

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