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3 tips before hitting accept on your public cloud contract

where is your data actually located

Published October 2017

The cloud has gone mainstream in almost every aspect of enterprise computing. An essential part of doing business, the cloud should be considered the new “normal.” Data protection – specifically backup, archiving and disaster recovery – sits at the top of the cloud use-case list right now. But did you carefully read and negotiate your public cloud contract to meet your business requirements before signing? Or did the pages and pages of legalese terms lull you into hitting “accept” too soon?

While your legal department should read through the whole document, below are three important points to keep in mind as you work with your cloud provider.