SearchSecurity.com just released an article about a recent Forrester report. The report advises a cautious approach to cloud computing or cloud-based services. The study found that early adopters ran into some roadblocks such as not knowing where their data is located or what happens to the data if they want to change services and even not knowing specifically how the service provider protects customer privacy.
Forrester advises that companies who are considering cloud-based services gain a clear understanding of security, privacy and legal consequences of contracting with a service provider. At BlueLock, we like to make it as easy for you as possible to learn about our practices and procedures and match those up against other cloud computing providers. In our opinion, the last thing we want is to have clients come in and sign on unaware of how their security, privacy and data will be handled.
In regards to security, Forrester recommends that organizations create a checklist of data security and compliance priorities. This is great advice. The more you can elaborate on your needs, the better able BlueLock is to provide you exactly what you need.
We’ve had lots of requests for highly compliant IT environments. The beauty of cloud computing is that BlueLock is able to build your company a compliant environment at a fraction of the cost of building an entire IT system and infrastructure on your own. Right On Interactive chose BlueLock as their SaaS hosting provider for that precise reason. Their 5Buckets solution (integrated marketing automation software) needed to be highly compliant in order to be able to integrate with companies such as ExactTarget (email marketing) and SalesForce.com.
They turned to BlueLock, laid out their needs and wants in regards to security and compliance, decided where they wanted their data stored (Indianapolis facility) and off BlueLock went designing a VMware virtualized IT environment. They now pay for IT infrastructure as a monthly operational expense; their compliant and secure environment can scale on demand and its environment if fully managed by virtualization experts 24/7/365. What more could a growing software company ask for?
Forrester advises that companies who are considering cloud-based services gain a clear understanding of security, privacy and legal consequences of contracting with a service provider. At BlueLock, we like to make it as easy for you as possible to learn about our practices and procedures and match those up against other cloud computing providers. In our opinion, the last thing we want is to have clients come in and sign on unaware of how their security, privacy and data will be handled.
In regards to security, Forrester recommends that organizations create a checklist of data security and compliance priorities. This is great advice. The more you can elaborate on your needs, the better able BlueLock is to provide you exactly what you need.
We’ve had lots of requests for highly compliant IT environments. The beauty of cloud computing is that BlueLock is able to build your company a compliant environment at a fraction of the cost of building an entire IT system and infrastructure on your own. Right On Interactive chose BlueLock as their SaaS hosting provider for that precise reason. Their 5Buckets solution (integrated marketing automation software) needed to be highly compliant in order to be able to integrate with companies such as ExactTarget (email marketing) and SalesForce.com.
They turned to BlueLock, laid out their needs and wants in regards to security and compliance, decided where they wanted their data stored (Indianapolis facility) and off BlueLock went designing a VMware virtualized IT environment. They now pay for IT infrastructure as a monthly operational expense; their compliant and secure environment can scale on demand and its environment if fully managed by virtualization experts 24/7/365. What more could a growing software company ask for?
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