The cloud competition for database hosts is fierce! How do you evaluate a cloud provider for your database platform? Chris Presley, Solution Architect at Pythian, provides a session that will give users a checklist of considerations when choosing a provider. This slideshow was from his speaking session at Cloud Computing Expo in New York City on June 8th, 2016.

1. Considerations for Moving
a Database to a Public
Cloud

2. Who Am I?
Chris Presley, Solutions Architect at Pythian

3. Who are you?

4. Why “considerations when
moving databases to a
public cloud?”

5. What are my goals?

6. What are my regulatory
considerations?

7. What are my
performance needs?

8. How will I connect to
the database?

9. Am I trying to cut costs?

10. Migration

11. Migration Continued

12. Life in the Cloud

13. Life in the Cloud - SLAs

14. How can I get my “feet
wet?”

15. Why deal with a
partner?

16. Questions?

17. Thank you
Follow Chris Presley on Twitter at @dbachris