There is a lot of hype around cloud at the moment, and IT departments within most financial organizations are justifiably skeptical about what they see as more marketing spin than substance.
With this in mind, it helps to ask a few key questions:
1. Can the cloud offering protect all of my servers and applications?
2. Can it protect the operating system and applications as well as the data?
3. Does it provide a mechanism to recover the data/servers without significant downtime?
4. Can I actually failover to the cloud and stay up and running?
5. Can I test the failover process to ensure the servers are recoverable?
6. Can I just pay for what I use or do I need dedicated servers in the cloud?
Looking at this list of questions, there is still a great deal of education required around the potential that cloud computing can offer around improving disaster recovery. Using best practice techniques around recovery of data is one route to ensuring that any implementation is a successful one.
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