Forbes.com recently interviewed Knode in an article “Deciding Which Cloud Services To Trust.” In the article, Knode introduces six types of questions a business should ask any potential provider of cloud services, questions covering:
- History/Reputation
- Uptime
- Portability
- Authentication
- Compliance
- Privacy
These are the general categories that comprise two dozen questions making up the CloudTrust Protocol, a protocol he and others working on it believe will bring greater transparency to cloud computing services, and thus create the type of trust in cloud computing that, as Knode says, “puts us in the business of liberation.”
Over the past decade, enterprise IT has watched as consumers and small businesses have taken advantage of the transformative power of cloud computing. In recent years larger organizations, attracted by its value, agility and other competitive advantages, have begun to explore the cloud as a viable enterprise computing platform. However, the time for “testing the waters” with trepidation is now behind us. It’s time to jump in with confidence.
