{"id":6306,"date":"2013-03-07T00:31:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T00:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/mar\/07\/ten-things-to-think-about-when-moving-to-the-cloud\/"},"modified":"2013-03-07T00:31:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T00:31:06","slug":"10-things-to-think-about-when-moving-to-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/10-things-to-think-about-when-moving-to-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"10 things to think about when moving to the cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moving applications to the cloud can create a more flexible, more responsive IT department, but what about moving application&nbsp;<em>data<\/em>&nbsp;to the cloud? How secure is that? And are cloud applications <em>truly<\/em>&nbsp;reliable and less expensive than on-premise applications?<\/p>\n<p>Let&rsquo;s consider some issues before you take the cloud-migration leap.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.&nbsp;Goals<\/strong><br \/><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><br \/>Are you moving to the cloud to reduce costs, time-to-deployment, or your IT department&rsquo;s workload? Goals are the foundation of success, so you should list them, prioritie them, and quantify them. Before long, you&rsquo;ll be able to determine whether some level of cloud migration is right for you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.&nbsp;Security<\/strong><br \/><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><br \/>Will the cloud application provider secure and encrypt your data, both in motion and at rest; safeguard against breaches; execute threat analyses and penetration tests; and be candid about their findings? Remember:&nbsp;<em>you<\/em>, not the provider, will have to answer to the client in the event &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moving applications to the cloud can create a more flexible, more responsive IT department, but what about moving application&nbsp;data&nbsp;to the cloud? How secure is that? And are cloud applications truly&nbsp;reliable and less expensive than on-pre&#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-6306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6306","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=6306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}