10 Key Considerations When Selecting a Cloud Service Provider

1The vendor requires no long term obligations for their services.

2The vendor has demonstrated creditability and reliability in the community

3The vendor owns their cloud infrastructure and does not resell services through another provider

4The vendor provides option Recover Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) solutions

5The cost of the vendor’s services are relative to the value provided by the solution

6The vendor has a secondary data center for disaster recovery

7The vendor discloses how many employees have access to your data and offers tours of their data center facility

8The vendor has an enterprise grade infrastructure with multiple built in redundancies and no single point of failure

9The vendor’s secondary data center is on a diver power grid (Eastern, Western, or Texas)

10The vendor offers a simple exit strategy (complete export of your data)

10The vendor offers a simple exit strategy (complete export of your data)

For an in depth explanation of each criteria read our full article.

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Vendor Selection Matrix

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Provides sufficient levels of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

Offers acceptable levels of service reliability and data security

Understands the specific needs of the nonprofit and association community

After completing this matrix you will be able to evaluate if a vendor: