Cloud Storage Provides Recovery as a Service

Companies have embraced new and sophisticated business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) technologies that has flooded the market in recent years, including the Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS) storage option. According to this report on Computer Technology Review, the problem is that there are challenges when the data you have backed up needs to be accessed.

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"This technology has its roots in the consumer space and many vendors have simply taken their consumer offerings and repackaged them for the business market. The underlying technology, however, was still constructed with consumers in mind, so businesses with more than 4-5 users quickly run into deployment difficulties. There are exceptions as some vendors have re-architected their platforms to focus on the needs of business (e.g. server data) but for the most part, the Cloud market for online backup and data warehousing is filled with consumer-friendly offerings.

"The real problems that these services present – even the few that are better designed for business – don’t stem from the backing up or storage of data. The challenges begin when the data you have backed up or stored needs to be accessed, and used."

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