{"id":2429,"date":"2012-07-02T10:50:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T10:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/jul\/02\/6-things-should-know-before-move-Cloud\/"},"modified":"2012-07-02T10:50:25","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T10:50:25","slug":"6-things-you-should-know-before-your-move-to-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/6-things-you-should-know-before-your-move-to-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"6 things you should know before your move to the Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strategies that suggest running company servers from data centres (Cloud Computing) are not a new concept to businesses. But as time has gone on, this strategy has now become a viable alternative to SMEs, providing a number of attractive benefits. As a result, many companies are actively turning to cloud-based strategies rather than merely refreshing server hardware.<\/p>\n<p>But frustratingly &#8211; and perhaps inexcusably considering the huge volumes of ink dedicated to the serious considerations of pursuing a cloud strategy &#8211; too many companies are making costly mistakes, forcing Marcie Terman, Business Development Director at DataFort, to vent and highlight &#8211; once and for all &#8211; the six most important areas of risk to consider when making such a major step.<\/p>\n<p>1)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>Risks around service continuity: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Commodity services &ndash; those &lsquo;off the shelf&rsquo;, cheap solutions &ndash; will often neglect to make any mention of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) concerning service continuity. But you must understand the risk &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strategies that suggest running company servers from data centres (Cloud Computing) are not a new concept to businesses. But as time has gone on, this strategy has now become a viable alternative to SMEs, providing a number of attractive benefits. As a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}