Connecting The Dots: How To Achieve End-to-End Compliance With Hybrid Clouds

By Dan Timko, President & CTO, Cirrity

For managed services providers (MSPs) and technology resellers, one of the emerging challenges in service delivery is providing end-to-end compliance assurance to customers. End-to-end security has historically been the main focus, with providers finding it too complicated or expensive to build or license platforms that guarantee customers regulatory compliance for mandates such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Those that offered compliant, cloud-based infrastructure and solutions generally had to charge a substantial premium, and not all customers were ready to incur the expense of storing all or even most of their assets in a compliant cloud.

The tides are turning in the compliance world, as new solutions emerge that enable the promised value of hybrid clouds — where one compliant cloud resource can be connected to a variety of cloud-based, on-premises virtual and even on-premises physical resources that may not have the same requirements.

The Hybrid Cloud Finds Its Stride

One of the difficulties preventing hybrid cloud solutions from having this much flexibility has been the need to maintain policy compliance across various hybrid cloud resources. Today, leading technology vendors are developing solutions that better allow customers to manage both compliance and control of resources across multiple clouds.

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