Internet and Distributed Computing Systems

Recently, a lot of companies are increasingly introducing cloud services for digital records management. The cloud services can dramatically lower the cost of archiving and managing digital records and provides a foundation for resilient management of digital 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 digital records and the intrinsic risks inherent in the cloud, many companies are reluctant to apply the cloud to their digital records management right away. In this paper, we analyze the risk factors of the digital records in the cloud services and discuss some alternative models to solve them.