Cloud Backup Disaster Proof Technology

Is cloud backup disaster proof technology? Given recent hurricane Sandy storm damage, it will be a challenge for many businesses who did not have their data backed up, to resume operations. If the data generated by your business is this important, this valuable, this irreplaceable, what can you do as a business owner to ensure that it is protected? The answer to this over the years has been to back up the data onto a server, perhaps even multiple servers. Using enterprise grade backup software, an entrepreneur could safely save their business data onto a server in hopes that if the production data set was lost, the backup would be used to bring the business back online. If only this were true in application…

Data Recovery

I have been in the data recovery business for almost twenty years. One of the most vulnerable data sets we work on are backup systems that have failed. Even the most sophisticated servers will eventually fail and with that failure, your backup is lost. Even if the data can be recovered, the costs can be prohibitive and can set a business back thousands of dollars. In addition, the time involved in recovering the data could keep a business down for two to three weeks, even longer if the recovery is complicated. Not only is your backup down, but your business could be down as well. What is the answer to this particular situation knowing that sooner or later there is a high probability of your backup being lost?

It is important to understand that all hardware will eventually fail. This is just a fact that cannot be overlooked. In order to make sure that your data is safe, it would mean that the hardware would never fail. This may sound like an impossibility, but let’s take a look at a practical solution.

Cloud Backup Services

Cloud backup services have become the safest method for ensuring your data is not only secure, but also available at a moment’s notice. Through self-duplicating technologies, the cloud will not only back your data onto a remote facility, but it will also duplicate itself onto another facility. In other words, when you backup your data onto the cloud at one data center, it is automatically backed up onto another server. In addition, you can configure your backup solution to place the data in another data center, so that even if something happens to your local data center, the alternate data center will have your data.

If you lose your data set locally, it is a simple matter of using the cloud backup through the network to bring your data back online. In addition, you could use other services on the cloud to run your business while the data is being transferred to your local systems. Network latency is virtually eliminated, since the cloud will always keep a copy of your data locally.

Ultimately, the best backup would be to run your business on the cloud using the several services available such as IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS. By virtue of cloud design, the technology safeguards all of its data and can make if a disaster proof technology for your enterprise.