{"id":8950,"date":"2013-09-20T14:25:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T14:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/sep\/20\/after-nirvanix-how-assess-right-cloud-provider-you\/"},"modified":"2013-09-20T14:25:08","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T14:25:08","slug":"after-nirvanix-how-to-assess-the-right-cloud-provider-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/after-nirvanix-how-to-assess-the-right-cloud-provider-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"After Nirvanix: How to assess the right cloud provider for you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Nigel Beighton, VP of Technology, International, Rackspace<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Choosing a cloud service provider is an important decision for any organisation. Cloud computing plays a central role in many businesses &ndash; from startups and SMBs to global companies &ndash; and usually involves entrusting service providers with mission-critical data and applications.<\/p>\n<p>To assess potential providers and make the right choice, conducting due diligence across the following areas is essential.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Financials:<\/strong> As the recent closure of Nirvanix shows, it&rsquo;s crucial to check a prospective provider&rsquo;s financial position: past, present and future. If they are to be trusted with your data, they need to demonstrate that they have been, and should remain, financially sound.<\/p>\n<p>So look for evidence of financial stability and growth over time; ask them about their financial prospects. Running a data centre requires major ongoing investment of capital, not to mention the substantial labour costs and operational budget. Are they in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nigel Beighton, VP of Technology, International, Rackspace<br \/>\nChoosing a cloud service provider is an important decision for any organisation. Cloud computing plays a central role in many businesses &ndash; from startups and SMBs to global companies &amp;n&#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-8950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8950","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=8950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}