How do you avoid cloud evaporation?

May 28, 2015 Off By David
Object Storage

Grazed from CCI. Author: William Rabie.

The pace of businesses migrating to the cloud is accelerating. In the UK in particular there certainly seems to be a larger and faster adoption of cloud services. A recent survey from the Cloud Industry Forum stated that more than eight out of ten UK companies currently store some or all of their data in the cloud. Published in May this year, the research found that 84% of firms have now adopted one or more cloud services – that’s up from 78% in June 2014 and an increase of 75% since 2010.

These statistics don’t surprise me at all. With increased cloud adoption we are also seeing an acceleration of take up of Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS). Whether safeguarding against human error, cyberattacks, small scale events or even big natural disasters, companies are now turning to DRaaS as a way to avoid serious risk without breaking the bank…

With DRaaS, not only is disaster recovery much more affordable but it is an effective way to carry on working despite a disaster. For example, take the recent Holborn fire incident in London where around 5,000 workers were evacuated from the area, when the underground fire broke out in the Kingsway area sparked by an electrical fault. London’s Chamber of Commerce estimated that overall around £40 million was lost in revenue as a result of the blaze. Businesses using cloud based platforms and DRaaS however were able to carry on working…

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