The Opportunities And Losses Caused By Cloud Computing In Disaster Recovery

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Walter Bailey.

Superstorm Sandy has been the center of global news through October/November, 2012. It has caused massive damage to property, loss of income, and lives. In fact, the storm has become more relevant than this last weeks US presidential race. To businesses, the storm has elucidated another debate as far as sustainability in aftermath of the disasters.

How safe is our data? How important are data backups to business recovery? How will we bounce back after the storm? How sustainable is our cloud computing policy as far as disasters are concerned? These are some of the questions policy and decision makers in businesses are grappling with in the aftermath of the raging storm. According to experts, business and corporate leaders have to rethink how they treat disaster recovery in cloud computing terms. This article looks at the role of cloud computing in disaster recovery…

The benefits of using cloud computing as a central contingency in disaster recovery

Superstorm Sandy left many businesses cut off from the electric grid. These resulted in numerous software and hardware losses. Business owners were not only working hard to evacuate themselves to safe spots on the east coast, but they were also faced with a bigger challenge: struggling to save business data, information, documents, and hardware. Having standby servers in the wake of this disaster is not enough. The outages hit them as well. Both way, data was lost and these businesses have a slim chance for recovery after the disaster..

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