Cloud Computing: 8 Tools Changing Business Technology Resiliency

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Rachel Dines.

What do cloud gateways, emergency communications tools, and disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) all have in common? All are changing the way businesses run their continuity programs. The products that make up the business technology resiliency market landscape historically have been fragmented and ill-defined, despite the fact that the products share a common mission: improving uptime. Although no organization is bullet proof, understanding the business value of these technologies and where they fit into your environment is key to enabling the always-on, always-available extended enterprise.

To help you develop your strategy for business technology resiliency for the next few years, Forrester has identified eight disruptive technologies that infrastructure & operations (I&O) professionals must keep on their watch list for 2013 and beyond. They are file sync and mobile access, cloud-to-cloud backup, cloud-based disaster recovery (DR) services, cloud gateways and connectors, continuity automation, hypervisor replication, virtualized continuity tools, and automated communication and notification tools. Consider how each of these might factor into your plans:…

1. File Sync And Mobile Access.

These can augment operational backup for your endpoints. Initially brought into many enterprises via consumer offerings, file sync has nevertheless rapidly permeated the industry. In a survey of almost 500 enterprise IT decision-makers, Forrester found that 24% already are using file synchronization services, with an additional 23% planning to adopt…

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