There are a number of ongoing efforts to establish standards and suggested best practices related to data privacy and security in a cloud environment. While none of these initiatives are mandated at this point, they are being viewed as a set of evolving guidelines for end customers to follow when performing a risk assessment against a cloud service provider infrastructure. A common theme across these data and information management models is the concept of the data lifecycle. This white paper highlights the most frequently encountered storage-specific considerations throughout the data lifecycle, focusing on how SolidFire addresses each of these areas.