Issues and concerns: Record management in cloud services

Recently, lots of companies are increasingly applying cloud services to electronic records management. The cloud services can dramatically lower the cost of archiving and managing electronic records and provides a foundation for resilient management of electronic records management, depending on the circumstances of the enterprise. However, due to the nature of service provided by third parties in the cloud, conflicting the nature of electronic records and the intrinsic risks inherent in the cloud, many companies are reluctant to apply the cloud to their electronic records management right away. In this paper, we analyze the risk factors of the electronic records in the cloud services and discuss some alternative models to solve them.