How The Cloud Changes Disaster Recovery

July 26, 2011 at 03:44 PM

Chart of recovery time vs. cost

Data Center Knowledge has posted a great article illuminating the effect that cloud computing is having on the economics of disaster recovery (DR) for information technology. Having fast DR used to mean adding a large considerable expense to your IT budget in order to "duplicate" what you have.

Using cloud technologies not only is this less expensive, but is a great first step towards transitioning IT infrastructure into the cloud paradigm.

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/07/26/how-the-cloud-changes-disaster-recovery/

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