Choosing your Cloud Hosting Provider is more important than ever in today's massive Big Data age. The increasing amount of data stored, particularly corporate and consumer wide, has exponentially heightened the risk of security breaches, hacking, and DDoS attacks.

The decision to move the cloud will help cut costs, streamline workflow, and reduce the need for in-house IT personnel and hardware. Finding the 'best' hosting provider is no longer good enough. Finding the 'right' one is. Whether hosting your servers and network within a collocation data center, virtual Private or Public cloud, proper data storage is a vital decision. Thorough consideration towards compliance sovereignty and regulatory requirements, along with where the data in a particular region around the world is stored, are absolutely necessary when looking at the right Provider to work with.

This guide will help you understand to help make the process less painful.