The Cloud Provides Disaster Recovery As Hurricane Sandy Rages
October 31, 2012
Grazed from CRN. Author: Steven Burke and Jack McCarthy.
For Tim Shea, the founder and CEO of Alpha NetSolutions, a 10-year-old managed services and cloud computing provider based in Millbury, Mass., Hurricane Sandy was a non-event for his customers. That’s because of the technology advances that have come with dramatic improvements in cloud computing, Shea said, and its accompanying backup disaster recovery.
"We had a few calls, but it’s business as usual," said Shea, discussing the impact of Hurricane Sandy that wreaked havoc up the East Coast. "No one has lost data. All our managed services clients are prepped for this, and we have contingencies in place. None of my customers are in fear of losing their data. If something happens we know what to do. We have been through this so many times it isn’t even funny."…
Although Hurricane Sandy slammed into the East Coast this week, creating widespread damage, cloud networks held up for the most part. The very nature of cloud computing — the ability to host data center assets off-premise in remote, distributed data centers — can protect data from a disaster, even if it’s a hurricane that spans several hundred miles…
Read more from the source @ http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/240012567/the-cloud-provides-disaster-recovery-as-hurricane-sandy-rages.htm