FAQ's

These are some questions that clients have about deployment of Web 2.0 and cloud-based IT solutions.


Risks	Mitigation

Site s\ecurity: Is my site secured?	SSL encryption

Vendor lock into MWG: Am I locked into MWG as a provider?	Plone site can be hosted on client's own cloud site and content can be exported to client's own plone cloud site. No lock into to MWG.	BEAM team can be engaged to build client's site on its own cloud server.

Plone's technology long term viability: How viable is Plone?	Plone is a vibrant open source technology and supported independently by Plone.org. Adopters include	http://plone.org/	http://plone.net/

Data storage security and sustainability. Is my data storage safe, backed up and secured?	Release 1's data is stored on google doc. Google is a strategic platform. Google is a major, reputable cloud vendor. Trust is their mainstay. And they have many, many users.

I understand future releases might use Plone's internal data store such as Plomino so that I can do more functions. What is the risk there?	If in the future you decide to use a different data store, you can export data in CSV format and imported into the new data store.

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