Last Tuesday I released part 1 of a series of blog posts that discuss what it takes to have an enterprise-ready cloud service. (As a quick refresher, the idea of defining the enterprise cloud was spurred after the media fall-out from the identity hack of Wired’s Mat Honan.) In the post, I identified the three broad characteristics that differentiate an enterprise-grade cloud service from your typical consumer cloud service: Security, Reliability, and Trustworthiness. While seemingly simple, these three enterprise attributes can actually be fairly nebulous to attain. That’s why even though hundreds of cloud companies claim to be “enterprise-ready,” the number of true enterprise cloud services is actually much smaller. Only a handful of services – take, for example, Box, Salesforce, Workday, and ServiceNow – have best-of-breed enterprise applications supported by transparent security, reliability, and trustworthiness litmus tests. So, what makes the true enterprise-ready cloud services different? When.