Disaster Recovery (DR) is a widespread reason to consider cloud services for online storage of organizational content. The Aberdeen Group determined through a survey of 100 companies that 66% of respondents identified DR as the primary reason to utilize cloud services, followed by increased IT costs as reason #2. Cloud services are a natural fit for a cross-organizational backup strategy. The thought of “having a central, remote repository for all data” provides peace-of-mind for CIOs and IT Directors of cloud-adopters.
Fact is, ill-planned DR strategies prove many well-intended cloud backup initiatives useless in the event of real disasters. We find that many organizations that believe they have redundancy in the cloud, have never tested DR setup in a simulated disaster. When considering cloud storage for DR purposes, it is important to recognize the particulars of your organization, as these can significantly affect the right approach to take:
We believe that proper disaster planning should involve application-level backup as well as storage-level backup at all times. Contact us to learn more about DR for WebPal Cloud Server application.