Comment Re:No, just no. (Score 1) 91
How do you know any of that is true?
For a customer you can easily have a tour arranged. You can meet with your account manager regularly. You'll know the people assigned to your account.... Your agent can just tell you since we all go on tours.
How many people review the data center they are migrating to?
I'd say most customers go their data center at least once and sometimes more than once during the sales process.
How many people vette the employees in the cloud center?
You mean like an HR vetting? Those are done quite well. In addition the centers themselves are regularly audited by customers and auditing firms. Again you can pick your center based on the policies you want.
There is no incentive for the vendor to do any of that, it just reduces profitability.
Quite the contrary. The better the data center the less cost sensitive the customers. It increases profitability. Lower end centers selling rack space below cost to supplement existing customers who have become semi-indifferent might have those sorts of incentives to cut corners but again a customer is going to know if there are hitting up a low security / low cost provider.
And the IT management can just say, "It is a professional Fortune {500 | 50} company they *must* be good". . But trust me, the incompetence I have seen in Fortune 500 companies has been astounding.
Exactly the point. You see a much higher level of competence in telcos and fiber companies which run most data centers. You see a much higher level of competence in IaaS operators. Which is my point for most companies this is a security upgrade.