The Disaster Mitigation And Recovery Power Of Cloud Computing

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Abdul Salam.

In a world where digital connectivity and online presence are a significant part of life and businesses alike, a disaster that disables online services is undoubtedly going to ruin some people’s day, to say the least. Hurricane Katrina and others like it around the world have proven that no data center or server facility is safe from natural disasters and other freak accidents. The effects of such events can at least be mitigated with cloud computing services and technology, making disaster mitigation and recovery easier.

Imagine if a bank losses all its customer’s data including all digital backups because of some calamity, it certainly is a disaster for everyone, the bank most especially. However, not to worry for there are backups in the form of paper, age old reliable paper; well, one can just imagine the banks clerks trudging through tons of paper and slaving in front of computers as they quickly try to get everything into electronic form while their cheeks slowly turn gaunt and their eyes white. It is a highly unlikely event with today’s standards for backing up data, but still a possible worst case scenario…

The nature of cloud computing makes disaster recovery an extremely logical solution, and as a service it can be tremendously lucrative. Because cloud computing can allow one to offload data into “offshore” installations, anywhere and everywhere around the world with multiple backups, the chances that all of them can be wiped out in the same instance are pretty slim. This can be accomplished with the old setup one might say. Yes, it can, but not as well and not as economically as cloud computing can, especially if you consider the public cloud option…

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