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Why cloud based disaster recovery is inevitable
Transformation to 24x7 digital business is forcing IT organisations to look at hosted disaster recovery solutions , according to Yasser Zeineldin at eHosting DataFort .
In today ’ s world of disturbed geo political situations and changing climates , the need for business continuity and disaster recovery solutions is becoming important . Once regarded as prohibitive in terms of costs , the arrival of cloud based solutions and regional hosting service providers , is making top management executives and IT administrators relook and revisit the approach to business continuity solutions .
While top management executives and IT administrators may shy away from using hosting service providers to manage their critical IT infrastructure and business critical applications , the enormous savings in costs and the enormous gains in deploying a cloud based business continuity solution has meant that such cloud based services are being increasingly considered and tested .
In the past , organisations have implemented disaster recovery solutions by selecting the most critical of their operations and using a combination of data replication , mirroring , snapshots and backups . This has resulted in over protection and over investment for the most critical applications and under protection and under investment for lower tier applications , and corresponding loss of data and business failures at the time of crises .
The exponential growth of data traffic is bringing to close the viability of business continuity solutions that rely on traditional computing technologies due to rapid increase of networking costs and storage requirements . Industry surveys also indicate that global businesses with growing 24x7 digital consumers can
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