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10 best cloud backup strategies for biz continuity

30.06.2011
Whether they are cloud service outages or natural disasters, cloud computing can be both a nightmare or a savior to your IT organization: either it or loses your data, or it allows you to as workloads are switched to or backed up by physically safer data centers.

Whatever outcome they bring, it boils down to the use of cloud-based storage and cloud data backup, which are two very different concepts.

Paraphrasing from the (PDF file, page 2-1), cloud-based storage is the on-demand network access to a shared pool of storage that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort. According to Acronis APAC President Bill Taylor-Mountford, however, "Cloud-based storage will not be able to perform any recovery in the event of disaster."