Don’t Let Your Data Blow Away: Cloud Disaster Recovery

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Lindsey Nelson.

A disaster of any kind is a fear for so many of us. Events like house fires and freak thunderstorms can take all our personal belongings and remind us that no document or treasure is safe unless one of two things is true – you happened to either buy two or make a copy, or it’s been backed up. But what if you were not only a home owner, but also the owner of a small local bank. What would happen to all your transactional data if that freak storm came through your town?

What Is Cloud Disaster Recovery?

Cloud computing is great for a lot of things, collaboration, saving your company money, and improving app development; however, it’s perfect for one thing – a data disaster recovery. According to Wikipedia, cloud backup is “a service that provides users with a system for the backup, storage, and recovery of computer files…typically built around a client software program that runs on a schedule…once a day…it typically collects, compresses, encrypts and transfers the data to the remote backup service provider’s servers or off-site hardware.”…

Cloud computing is the perfect technology to handle disaster recovery because it is a virtual server. Let’s take a basic “disaster”: you realized there’s a massive patch needed and it must be done to please your CIO overnight. Typically this process would be burdensome, you’d have to move all the data and apps over, execute the patch, then load everything back in. With a cloud computing disaster recovery solution, you’d be hardware independent, your data and patches can be moved and executed without the reload at the end. It would only take minutes to do this with a virtual host and since you only pay for what you use with public and hybrid clouds, it makes it cost efficient. Why? Because for you would only pay for the storage you used that one time and wouldn’t have to incur the cost for the remaining year of unwasted space…

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