Hybrid Cloud Backup Plays a Key Role in Intelligent Business Continuity

Sometimes companies don’t realize the importance of business continuity until it is threatened. When natural disasters like Superstorm Sandy hit, companies of all sizes remember that intelligent business continuity is nearly as important at hot water and electricity. When companies start to look at techniques for business continuity, they quickly see that cloud backup strategies play an important role.

In the event of a disaster, be it natural or technical, businesses must be confident that their data was backed up, and that it can be restored in a timely manner. When small and medium businesses experience downtime, they stand to lose a great deal of money as IT strives to bring operations back online.

In these instances, virtual machines (VM) can be the difference between downtime and uptime. VMs are copies of workstations or servers running on a server in the cloud. Every aspect of the duplicated machine can be run from this virtual machine that lives in the cloud, and is therefore not vulnerable to localized phenomena, like a weather disaster. Companies can failover to the cloud to avoid downtime, keeping data and operations running smoothly and consistently, assuring business continuity even when the winds are strong and the weather fierce.