Clouds and Service Delivery
The Internet era brought a change in the way services are being delivered across the world. With more and more applications being developed for a wide range of services, the data that is getting generated also increased. Gone are the days when organizations used to have large server rooms to cater to the increasing demands of services, as well as safe keep the data that is generated. The world slowly saw the advantages of cloud computing, which provided easy, cost-effective options for sharing computer processing resources and data on demand.
A whole host of services sprung up based on cloud computing, enabling organizations viable alternatives for disaster recovery plans. Everything could be hosted on clouds which led to savings in time and money rather than constant changes to infrastructure and interrupted services. For most service organizations, their success depends on continuous service delivery in spite of any possible interruptions.
The uptime is very important for customer satisfaction and business too. With the amount of transactions happening per minute on the Internet, the service interruption, even for a few minutes, could well result in huge business loss and grumpy customers. With third party vendors providing the cloud hosting and related services with unbeatable uptime metrics, more and more organizations are going the cloud way.
Importance of Cloud disaster recovery
Every organization will have a disaster recovery plan checklist in order to address incidents of failure, whatever may be the cause. After all, failing to plan is planning to fail and this is more so in case of disaster recovery plans.
Cloud disaster recovery is a plan that enables you to retrieve data and services based on data center backups taken into the cloud. This enables an organization to reload a complete virtual service, reducing downtime, and ensuring service continuity.
When you have well thought disaster recovery plans, it means that your organization has looked at all that can go wrong, despite preventive measures. With a disaster recovery plan, you have also gone a step further to detail the remedies to retrieve data with minimal or no loss of information, time, money, and more importantly reputation.
Disaster recovery project plans are like taking an insurance cover for applicable disasters. The factors that get addressed with cloud disaster recovery products are:
1. Cost Benefit – Overall reduction in TCO and wide accessibility. Though cloud computing may be expensive, there are multiple choices for this service and you could work out a reasonable choice.
2. Dealing with multiple vendors to ensure service continuity due to the various infrastructure and software involved can prove cumbersome. Going the cloud way can save you a headache as you would have to deal with only one vendor providing the service.
3. Safety and compliance of data storage aspects are also taken care of. Once you have service level agreements in place, it means that a huge part of the safety and security is also taken care effectively.