Five key points about cloud vs in-house disaster recovery
Summary
But, the need for protection against disruption is universal because system failures, power or network outages, cyber attacks, accidents and natural disasters can all wipe out an organisation’s operations. Researchers at the Uptime Institute estimate that 44% of organisations suffered a recent major outage that “tangibly impacted” the business. Some years back, only the biggest organisations could fully implement DR because it was so expensive to duplicate infrastructure and systems, even if it was through a third-party provider.” The most appealing feature of cloud-based data storage is its on-demand model. “Whether you are moving data to a managed service facility, the cloud or a third party, it’s about comms,” says Tony Lock, analyst at Freeform Dynamics. Ultimately only the business knows which data to protect – and how much they will pay to do so – whether the technical solution is the cloud, a secondary site or a managed DR service.