solutions improve over traditional recovery solutions in several
ways. First, they are much faster, reducing recovery times from
hours or days to just minutes, thereby significantly limiting
business outage due to disruption or disaster. Second, these
solutions are more reliable, reducing the risk of data loss or
inability to recover operations because of human error. Third,
they eliminate many of the complex, manual steps required
by traditional recovery solutions, allowing organizations to
quickly recover servers, data, disks and applications.
Cloud-based solutions can also help organizations optimize
their recovery investments. Because the provider, rather
than the client, owns the hardware required, organizations
no longer need to pay for hardware that sits idle except for
times of disruption or disaster. Cloud-based disaster recovery
solutions are also easily scalable, allowing organizations
to expand or contract recovery capabilities on demand, so
organizations don’t have to pay for services they don’t need.
This scalability can be especially beneficial for small or
medium-sized businesses.