As cloud adoption continues to grow, here are five best practice guidelines companies can use to assess the capabilities of their cloud providers.
Define Clear SLAs: Termination
Step 6: Terminating the Contract
Companies often fail to think far enough into the future and consider how they will exit the relationship with their CSPs. Remember that many CSPs will say that as they are accountable for your organization’s data while it is under their management, at the end of the contractual period, they may assert that they still own the data. Thus, it is critical that you ensure that your contract has a clear clause stating that the CSP must return and expunge your data upon termination of the agreement.