Varma Rudra, Director of Rudra IT Consultancy LTD., provides architectural governance services for large-scale business and technology transformation programmes. His end clients include police forces, utility companies and facility management companies.<\/p>\n
For Varma, a typical work day is packed with governance meetings and working towards managing stakeholder expectations and solution options to address customer requirements.\u00a0Most of his clients use different cloud offerings from Microsoft and AWS.<\/p>\n
“When it comes to productivity, Microsoft takes lead with their office 365 cloud offering. AWS is generally used when it comes to Linux and Java combination of deployment. When using Windows.Net and SQL server, clients tend to use Microsoft Azure because they are basically Microsoft offerings\u00a0\u2013 deploying them in Azure gives an edge in terms of cost, ease of deployment, upgrades, etc.,” says Varma.<\/p>\n
In the last 5 years, Cloud has evolved a lot and service providers have implemented a lot of controls to secure client services in the cloud. By opting for cloud-based IaaS, PaaS, SaaS solutions, customers are able to keep their infrastructure up-to-date and upgrade\/migrate the same with ease<\/p>\n
“One very important thing is to not<\/strong> implement solutions on the\u00a0cloud with a\u00a0traditional mindset. Many clients are surprised when they see their first bill because they ‘lift and shift’ the infrastructure,” comments Varma.<\/p>\n “Remember, the cloud is highly elastic in nature and you can scale up and when you require. So, implement the minimum infrastructure needed and scale it based on load. That\u2019s the secret to success in the cloud!”<\/p>\n According to Varma, the following tips help secure data in the cloud:<\/p>\n Nevertheless, problems can arise when storing data in the cloud. “Services & data in the cloud is accessible from the internet. Unless proper controls in place, your users can access and download the data from anywhere in the world,” warns Varma.<\/p>\n “The majority of clients require their data to be encrypted in the cloud. Although cloud supports ‘bring your own key’ options, these encryption keys are stored in cloud providers key vaults. So, there is a very narrow chance that cloud providers can access those keys and decrypt the data. It’s also vital to note that cloud providers have very strict governance and accreditations in place to mitigate the same.”<\/p>\n Cloud providers generally keep\u00a0their cloud services up-to-date with advancements in technology, according to Varma. “On the other end, many of the clients’ data centres he has worked with in the past have out-of-date IT infrastructure systems & applications which takes a lot of time and money to replace and are prone to attacks\u201d, he adds.<\/p>\n Varma also advises that you must ask your service provider the following questions about cloud storage security:<\/p>\n Written by Leah Alger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Varma Rudra, Director of Rudra IT Consultancy LTD, reveals useful tips and advice to help secure data in the cloud<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":13605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[806,771,798,1522,448,2906,3010],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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