Is your disaster recovery plan ready for cloud?

12.09.2012
This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

Having successfully piloted cloud usage with such as CRM and ERP, many businesses are now looking to replace traditional on-site backup and disaster recovery (DR) solutions with . Gartner predicts that more than 30% of midsize companies will have adopted DR in the cloud or by 2014. That begs the question: Is your business ready to make the leap?

Implementing solutions typically involves overcoming a number of hurdles. First, they can be difficult for overburdened IT staff to deploy, configure and administer. Moreover, some require the complex integration, coordination and scheduling of disparate systems at multiple backup sites.

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Traditional solutions can also be difficult to budget. They often require significant upfront capital expenditures for hardware, software and network infrastructure, duplicated across multiple sites. And, once established, they can be costly to scale incrementally. Additionally, these multiple infrastructures must be managed and maintained, adding to administrative overhead costs.