Disaster Recovery And The Cloud

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Editorial Staff.

One of the least considered benefits of cloud computing in the average small or mid-sized business manager’s mind is the aspect of disaster recovery. Part of the reason for this is that so few small and mid-size businesses have ever contemplated the impact of a major disaster on their IT infrastructure, let alone built a comprehensive disaster recovery plan.

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In fact, more than 95 percent of the SME customers that my colleagues have worked with over the last 20 years had never contemplated the impact that a fire, flood, or even the more mundane threat of employee sabotage might have on their businesses. And when confronted with the costs and time impact of implementing a disaster recovery plan — along with the associated processes of dry runs on recovery, staff training, hardware investment, and redundant systems — their willingness to leave it to luck only increased…

Of course, as our colleagues at our sister company Acronis have said, there are only two kinds of people in the world — those who have lost data and those who are about to. The good news is that with the technologies available to you today and the significantly lower costs associated with implementing those technologies, disaster recovery and disaster planning are much easier. At Acumatica, the systems that host our customers’ data in our software-as-a-service (SaaS) deployment and licensing model are hosted in the cloud and have regular snapshot backups and sit on fault-tolerant servers with redundant power, network infrastructure and storage systems in bomb-proof, earthquake-proof, physically secure, flood-proof, and fire-proof environments. All this protection is provided at a fraction of what it would cost for a customer to provision and deploy those solutions…

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