Almost always when companies decide to move to the cloud, they should keep in mind the data management provisions that their cloud service providers can offer them.
When it comes to data management, users of cloud services should be alert about their rights and responsibilities, as well as that of their cloud service providers.
These rights and responsibilities must be detailed in the service contract, which must define who is responsible for the damages in case the services are interrupted.
This service contract must address the issue of whether the responsibility extends to all customer data or only to some part.
Users of cloud computing should also make sure they know where their data is going to be physically and where the servers that hold the cloud storage are located.
The availability of data in the cloud is essential for the success of companies. A cloud data protection strategy allows you to make better decisions now and in the future.
How to improve the management of data in the cloud?
An obvious difference between internal and non-local data management is that in the cloud the data could be housed hundreds of miles away.
And you can access them from any mobile device, anywhere and at any time.
More and more companies choose to store their data outside their company.
A recent IDC survey revealed that a growing number of organizations are integrating data into the hybrid cloud and instead keeping data strictly in-house.
One of the main limitations when moving to the cloud is the planning of network capacity, it is considerable to manage data in the cloud, something that companies have overlooked when deciding migration.
When moving large amounts of data to the cloud, it is necessary to define a schedule on the day to do it whenever possible.
Once the data is in the cloud, IT departments no longer need database management tools for their management, since the process of database performance management, tuning and configuration is performed by the provider of the cloud.
Security tokens are a way to protect our company's data in the cloud, understanding where the data is and protecting it is the most important.
In addition to securing the data hosted in the cloud, it is also important to ensure that the data is secure while in transit. This may require VPN, HTTPS, SFTP / FTPS connections and other secure communication methods.
It is important to manage data in the cloud, data residency and data transfer, as well as data backup and recovery, these must be specified in the service contracts by the cloud provider. They should also include information about whether the provider has a failover site and where that failover site is located.
Organizations must also think about the format of the data they handle in the cloud; that could be in a relational database, that is, a flat file or an email. If they have customer data stored in large volume, they also have to think if they have the internal skills for its management.
