"Obviously it is not practical to back up everything in the data centre to Cloud but, if you can identify the important software and that which creates revenue and, in our case, the source code of 14 different product, it represents a big chunk of data that is very important to running our business.

"For time of recovery and point of recovery, I think it's very valuable if you can keep your critical applications in near real time -- and that doesn't mean redundancy to the Cloud unless it works that way financially.

"And if you're virtualized like we are and have a VCloud provider or two, then your recovery time is significantly cut down. If you go to a different model, you don't perhaps have that same 'quickness'.

Volosyn said that with the advent of Vseries 5, the organisation will be able to expand its architecture to create a true private Cloud.

"When you have a vast infrastructure spread around the world, managing that is paramount," he said.