Introduction
A decade on, enterprises are still figuring out how to manage risk in the cloud. Risks that used to predominate in the imagination of the enterprise subscriber—namely, concerns about the availability, reliability, cost, and security of cloud services—are no longer perceived as, well, quite so risky.
This paper outlines a positive, constructive program an enterprise can use to achieve the benefits of cloud while at the same time pragmatically control the risks inherent in moving decision-support and analytic workloads to a cloud environment. It considers three related questions:
- What risks are unique to the cloud?
- What unique risks must enterprises consider when they move decision-support and analytic workloads to the cloud?
- What pragmatic steps can enterprises take to manage these risks?
