Cloud computing advantages bring disaster recovery to the masses
March 19, 2014
Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Alex Barrett.
Disaster recovery used to be the province of the rich and famous: Only the most deep-pocketed organizations could afford the equipment, effort and expertise needed to put together a comprehensive DR plan. In the past decade, though, virtualization has lowered the bar to disaster recovery. By running a hypervisor at a remote site, organizations can eliminate the need for exact hardware replicas at the DR site, greatly reducing costs and overhead.
Now, the public cloud has pushed DR one step further, using cloud computing advantages to remove the need for a dedicated remote location and hardware altogether. Further, the cloud’s pay-for-use model reduces monthly charges, prompting organizations to pay for protection only when they need it. Soup-to-nuts cloud-based Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offerings, meanwhile, can also reduce the amount of on-staff expertise needed to pull off a DR initiative…
"Before, you needed a large IT staff and partnerships with vendors to make DR work," said Satish Hemachandran, senior director of product management at Cbeyond Inc., a managed services and cloud hosting provider. "With cloud, DR is becoming more accessible."…
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