The Risks and Benefits of Cloud Computing
January 16, 2013
Grazed from Technorati. Author: Adi Gaskell.
The following is an interview with Joseph Corrigan, Partner at Posternak Blankstein & Lund in Boston on the benefits and risks of using cloud computing in your business.
How do you use cloud computing in your business, and what are the advantages of using it?
We are currently use a cloud service provider to back-up our data periodically throughout the day as well for our disaster recovery needs. The advantage of cloud computing for this service is that backing up data used to be a time consuming and expensive process, where tapes were utilized to back up data on a daily basis, and it was expensive to maintain the equipment necessary restore the data contained on the back-up tapes…
If a company didn’t have the equipment to restore their back-ups, this equipment needed to be purchased in the event of a disaster and then the restore often took a day or two and sometimes longer to perform. With the cloud back-up, we can automatically back-up our data daily to our disaster recovery service provider’s servers, and have the ability to restore the data cheaply, efficiently and even test the restored data in a lab type (or staging) environment to ensure that the restore is successful before users are given access to it…
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