7 Things to know for your perfect cloud service provider

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7 Things to know for your perfect Cloud Service
Provider
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What Cloud Services do you need?
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• Identifying your cloud computing needs will help
  you dictate the type of service or services you
  choose. There are software-based cloud offerings
  for online documents, photos and video storage

• Moreover you can also find cloud services related
  to the online accounting and for online customer
  relationship management. So if you require more
  than just basic data storage, there are many
  vendors who offer an extensive range of
  general-purpose cloud computing services,
  comprising of IT networking infrastructure along
  with the on-demand access to virtual servers,
  applications and software.

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What is the Cost Structure?
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Remember, you should only pay for what you
actually use. Moreover, be cautious of the large
upfront costs, which actually are not the
standard for renowned cloud vendors
The costing scheme should be pay-as-you go from
the beginning, with the flexibility of adding
services as required. Fees can be usually charged
hourly, monthly, semi-annually or annually,
depending completely on the vendor
Costing for the cloud computing services can
differ significantly depending on the needs of
the company.
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How Reliable and Secure is your Cloud?
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Security should be very significant when it comes
to storing your companys sensitive data in the
cloud. Therefore, a cloud hosting provider must
have certain standard security measures at the
first place and should constantly update them.
When choosing a cloud provider, you have got to
be sure that you are completely comfortable with
your cloud providers approach towards the
security. What are the security measures that
you should look for? Well, you must look for
firewalls, anti-virus detection, multifactor user
authentication and data encryption, and the
routine security audits. It is also very
important to ask that who at the cloud company
will have access to your data in the cloud and
whether the cloud provider carries out employee
background checks to discover the potential cyber
threats.
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Where is the Data Center and how secure it is?
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The locations and security of the data centers
are as significant as the online security. Make
sure that you are not doing the business with a
party having a couple of servers in a spare room
which is somehow easily accessed and
compromised. In order to make sure that this is
not the case, ask how potential cloud vendors
protect its data center from the natural
calamities, like floods, earthquakes and storms.
Moreover, also find how the facilities are
shielded from the thieves who could easily walk
away with your sensitive data.
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What is your Downtime History?
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Downtime is basically when a cloud provider is
not accessible to the users via the internet for
a considerable period of time. Just because the
cloud outages can prove to be disruptive and
costly for your business, it is best to choose a
provider with as few as possible. However, some
of the vendors post their downtime history logs
online, but if not, do ask for a cloud providers
past track records.
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How to get the Set-Up?
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Once you choose and go green with a cloud service
provider, the next step is to log in to your user
dashboard and start to configure your account and
start adding the employees as the users. There
are some cloud vendors who will let you know
through how to install and set up their services.
However there are some vendors who simply provide
just the introductory guides.
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How to access my Companys Cloud?
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You should be able to access your business
information in the cloud irrespective of the time
and place via the internet just by signing in to
your providers client login page. Moreover, you
can use any device to log in, like your laptop,
smartphone or the tablet. Today the Indian IT
companies are increasingly partnering with the
cloud platform providers to put together the
products an enterprise has selected from the wide
array of cloud offerings, and assign those
products into the parts of the corporations IT
infrastructure that have not moved to the cloud.
The challenges would arise when the expectations
of the client for the technological innovation
will tend to increase with the passage of
time. The elasticity of the cloud is one of its
key advantages, but you have to make sure that
your prospective cloud provider can accommodate
the volume of growth you anticipate, as well as
the unexpected upswing in demand for service,
with the optimum level of performance your users
demand.
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