Security Best Practices for Migrating your Database to the Cloud What is/was your biggest hesitation in moving databases to the cloud? More and more organizations are moving applications and databases to IaaS/PaaS environments in order to enjoy the benefits of cloud computing while still preserving application flexibility and control. However, many enterprise IT departments have serious concerns about moving their more sensitive servers and data to the cloud. These concerns are the same whether they are migrating from MySQL or SQL Server, or migrating to Amazon Web Services AWS , Window Azure, Google Compute Engine, VMware VCloud, IBM Cloud (Softlayer) or any other cloud hosting service. They have good reason for concern: industry experts agree that there is no question that moving sensitive data into the hands of third-party cloud providers expands and complicates the risk landscape in which companies operate every day: The Cloud Security Alliance states that data brea
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