If you are considering workloads for the cloud or an entire cloud strategy or moving your entire datacenter into the cloud, I think you are already on the right path for success within your IT organization. The cloud, when properly leveraged, could be a huge cost cutter and a significant ally to deliver services in a timely manner to meet business expectations.
While the decision to offload certain workloads to the cloud is a good one, spotting and understanding the fine print of what each service provider offers can be the determining factor between a successful cloud project and a disappointing one. So what are the questions you should be asking your cloud service providers? Here are a few that are imperative:
1. Who can see my information, and how do you audit changes?
2. What is your data protection strategy?
3. How do you handle multi-tenancy?
4. If I use your service, am I locked in?
5. What Service Level Agreements do you provide?
6. What is your financial status?
These are just a sample of questions that you should be thinking about. How they address these questions will be a good indicator of your cloud provider’s readiness. For example if you ask for their financials and they take two weeks to respond, you can easily detect that no serious customer has used its services before. It’s the small things that will make a huge difference when you are investigating these providers.
By: Elias Khnaser
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Stephan Cico, SR Director, TigerCloud
