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• Tough questions to put to cloud providers

  Cloud vendors may have a slick sales pitch, but it won't always match what's in their contracts — so it’s up to you to ask the hard questions. Here are some tough questions to ask cloud providers.

• Microsoft Windows Azure tops Cloud speed tests

  Microsoft’s Windows Azure has come out on top in a year’s worth of Cloud speed tests, beating Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Rackspace and 20 others.

Whitepapers about cloud service providers

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  Code of practice for the protection of personally identifiable information (PII) in public clouds.

  This Paper is intended to provide the reader with a relevant and realistic assessment of what this Standard means to privacy and how information security processes and systems may be impacted when adopting the services of a CSP.