Cloud Computing Magazine. Assuring Cloud Compliance. This article originally appeared in the April 2012 issue of Cloud Computing Magazine. Enterprises look for application and data security regardless of where they reside. They also look for failover and disaster recovery capabilities in every premise-based, hosted or cloud based solution they evaluate. Federal and state laws and industry regulations such as HIPAA and PCI (News - Alert) DSS require strict controls on what kind of data can be stored, who can access it and where it can be stored. It is possible to have much tighter control on access in fully premise-based solutions, but they tend to be costly, especially for SMBs when they need to maintain multiple data center locations for failover and disaster recovery. Cloud service providers have geographically diverse data center locations that allow for load balancing, failover and disaster recovery.
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