Board member 1: I dont trust the cloud, plain and simple. We re putting our data on their hardware, but how do we know their hardware is safe? How do we know their services will be avalable 24/7 like we need? You: Cloud providers empioy a variety of techniques to ensure their services are awallable nearly all the time. Some of the biggest providers guarantee their services are avallable 99.99 h of the time or better. We can do some research to choose one or more providers that will give us the reliability we need. foord menber 2 'One or more providers? For what reason might we want to use more than one provider? You: Cloud technologies are changing so quickly, we might decide to use two or even three clocd providers so we can reduce This will make it easer to migrate to a different cloud provider in the future if someone else offers cheaper services or betterqualify service or some kind of new technolosy that no one else has yet. foord member I As you said, cloud computing is changing very quichly these days. Won't this create a tremendous amount of work for your team to keep up with the constant fluctuations in doud wences and features? You: The best cloud platforms offer extensive automation services. We can design our doud with functions that will continually fvaluate our cloud's performance and make automatic charges to improve performance and minimire costs. Clood computiag can be ibploged in several differeot ways, ioduding public clood, private doud, hybrid clood, and multidood. Fach ayproach has its orm benefits and drawbocks, allowing companies to choose the beat fir for their berds