New guidelines paper: ‘Disaster Recovery in the Cloud’

On Thursday, we joined forces with the National Computing Centre (NCC) to launch a new paper entitled "Guidelines for Disaster Recovery in the Cloud", provided to members of the NCC - around 10,000 senior IT professionals in in the UK.

Oscar explains: Disaster recovery in the cloud isn't one thing, but many.  In the past, your entire infrastructure was in one place, so you needed to prepare a plan for the loss of those systems. Today, businesses will often be using several different cloud services. This reduces your chance of losing everything at once, but it does add an extra layer of complexity.Our aim for the paper was to provide simple and practical guidance on how businesses should approach disaster recovery when using cloud services. Written by our very own Oscar Arean, Technical Operations Manager, and Mark Thomas, Solutions Architect, the guidelines examine the disaster recovery options available for the various different types of cloud deployments a modern business is likely to use.

As the process of disaster recovery becomes seemingly more complicated, it became apparent to us that there was an urgent need for clarification. Understandably, there is an air of uncertainty around cloud services, and we hope this guide will offset some of that and give businesses the tools and the confidence to explore their options.

Databarracks has been providing cloud based backup services for over a decade and a lot has changed in that time.  10 years ago, tape based backups were used by the overwhelming majority.  Virtualisation has driven major technological changes and we are now reaching a point of understanding about the real benefits of a managed backup solution.

As companies move systems from onsite over to cloud service providers; backup and DR really needs to be re-evaluated. Often businesses aren't aware of the wide range of options available, or of the factors that need to be taken into account.  Hopefully we can answer a lot of those questions in this paper.

Here at Databarracks we are very proud to have worked in conjunction with the National Computing Centre (NCC), who has been helping organisations to manage IT processes, and equip people with the skills to ensure business effectiveness, since 1966.