Tips for Moving Data Backup to the Cloud

As cloud-based services continue to gain in popularity, traditional network-based infrastructure services are making their way out of the data center. Tech Republic offers five things to consider if your organization is deciding whether to move to cloud backups.

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"2: Bandwidth In general, Internet bandwidth tends to scale based on the size of the company or the office. A small company with a couple of employees might do just fine with a DSL connection to the Internet, while that 5,000 corporate behemoth down the street might enjoy a multi-gigabit redundant Internet connection. In either case, if backup services are to be outsourced to the cloud, both upstream and downstream bandwidth needs require careful scrutiny. Remember, for many Internet connections, there is a huge difference between upstream and downstream connection speeds, with upstream speeds often capped at very low rates when compared to the downstream side of the pipe. A cloud based backup service could easily saturate that upstream connection.

"My hunch is that smaller companies would be more interested in cloud-based backup services than larger companies; smaller organizations often have residential-style connections to the Internet that feature very good download speeds, but very poor upload speeds. Larger organizations are likely to have a more balanced upload/download ratio; however, a large organization will probably have much more data to back up, too."

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