Disaster recovery and business continuity can benefit from cloud computing. Cloud computing allows organizations to deploy IT systems quickly and reduce capital expenditures. With disaster recovery solutions on the cloud, organizations can source almost all IT components online at lower costs while maintaining high quality of service. Cloud computing's pay-per-use model makes it attractive for the capital-intensive disaster recovery solutions. Moving disaster recovery services to public, private, or managed cloud options can help organizations access these solutions in better, faster, and cheaper ways. However, companies should cautiously approach cloud services due to potential issues like security, reliability, and service level agreements.
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Disaster recovery and business continuity can benefit from cloud computing. Cloud computing allows organizations to deploy IT systems quickly and reduce capital expenditures. With disaster recovery solutions on the cloud, organizations can source almost all IT components online at lower costs while maintaining high quality of service. Cloud computing's pay-per-use model makes it attractive for the capital-intensive disaster recovery solutions. Moving disaster recovery services to public, private, or managed cloud options can help organizations access these solutions in better, faster, and cheaper ways. However, companies should cautiously approach cloud services due to potential issues like security, reliability, and service level agreements.
Disaster recovery and business continuity can benefit from cloud computing. Cloud computing allows organizations to deploy IT systems quickly and reduce capital expenditures. With disaster recovery solutions on the cloud, organizations can source almost all IT components online at lower costs while maintaining high quality of service. Cloud computing's pay-per-use model makes it attractive for the capital-intensive disaster recovery solutions. Moving disaster recovery services to public, private, or managed cloud options can help organizations access these solutions in better, faster, and cheaper ways. However, companies should cautiously approach cloud services due to potential issues like security, reliability, and service level agreements.
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Disaster recovery and business continuity can benefit from cloud computing. Cloud computing allows organizations to deploy IT systems quickly and reduce capital expenditures. With disaster recovery solutions on the cloud, organizations can source almost all IT components online at lower costs while maintaining high quality of service. Cloud computing's pay-per-use model makes it attractive for the capital-intensive disaster recovery solutions. Moving disaster recovery services to public, private, or managed cloud options can help organizations access these solutions in better, faster, and cheaper ways. However, companies should cautiously approach cloud services due to potential issues like security, reliability, and service level agreements.
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Disaster Recovery - Most organizations recognize the need for a sophisticated IT system, but fear the
time, expense, and risk involved. New phenomenon called "Cloud Computing" is shaping the IT space now and I will discuss how disaster recovery/business continuity can benefit from this phenomenon.
Organizations have been taking advantage of utility computing and Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) model for years. The concept of cloud has emerged from these models and is now gaining traction. Cloud computing is a heavily loaded word with different interpretations and confusions. As a model, I think, cloud computing will evolve over time to offer different services and will be largely status quo. The real push has occurred among corporations that need to cut down time to deploy technology and capital expenditure during periods of rapidly evolving technology and global operations.
The typical breakdown of sourcing DR services is charted above. In a traditional DR sourcing
arrangement, DR systems are built internally and are limited in scope due to the expensive investment on high availability and redundant systems. As a result, IT departments that once insisted on doing everything internally are more willing to outsource various aspects of their architectural and functional environments to gain economies of scale and live within their budget and skills constraints. With DR on Cloud model, almost all IT components can be sourced online, the quality of service is higher whilst cost can be reduced significantly. Cloud computing’s value proposition of quick deployment on a pay-per-use basis makes it attractive for capital intensive DR solutions.
How To Get There
From my perspective, it’s no longer a challenge of whether sourcing DR services on cloud makes sense, but how to get there better, faster, and cheaper. I see three basic options, with further possibility of mixing and matching among them.
1. Public Cloud – If you’re already sourcing DR services, you should move to a public cloud. The switch from traditional managed DR services to public cloud can yield significant business value. In this model, economies of scale, learning through experience and all other benefits of consolidation can be passed on to each customer.
2. Private Cloud – Few nimble organizations that already have in-house DR system should consider private cloud, a full service enterprise cloud protected by firewall that performs these functions in-house. Organizations can also source from a designated service provider that offers a single-tenant operating environment.
3. Managed Cloud – A model in which the physical infrastructure is owned and/or physically located in the organization’s datacenters with an extension of management and security controlled by the service provider.
All told, cloud based services are emerging technology and should be approached with caution. There may be inherent issues of security, reliability, and service level agreement mismatches. Make sure you understand the risks and rewards (short term and long term) and the services are proper fit for your business. I believe that companies will eventually utilize cloud-based services for a significant portion of information systems requirements over time.
