{"id":1316,"date":"2009-10-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otava.test\/how-can-you-be-sure-that-your-customers-application-data-is-securely-reliably-hosted-by-the-saas-provider\/"},"modified":"2009-10-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T00:00:00","slug":"how-can-you-be-sure-that-your-customers-application-data-is-securely-reliably-hosted-by-the-saas-provider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/blog\/how-can-you-be-sure-that-your-customers-application-data-is-securely-reliably-hosted-by-the-saas-provider\/","title":{"rendered":"How Can You Be Sure That Your Customers&#8217; Application Data Is Securely &#038; Reliably Hosted by the SaaS Provider?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To some extent, managed dedicated servers hosted in an outsourced <a title=\"Managed data center\" href=\"https:\/\/otavawebsite.wpengine.com\/operations\/locations\/michigan-cloud-and-data-centers\/\">data center<\/a> have now become a trusted data bank on which the SaaS business model depends. 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