Pointless Cloud Storage Backup

Ecommerce Times suggests that backing up data that's already stored in the cloud is a waste of time because the massively redundant nature of cloud architecture ensures data protection inherently. In this article, tips are offered on leveraging cloud systems’ unprecedented levels of reliability and data durability into a data center.

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"In a traditional backup model, if you need to be able to recover terabytes of data very quickly, you would employ disk backup for your backups, as opposed to tape. You would have multiple GigE connections between the backup server and that target, and then you would try to siphon, as quickly as possible, all of your full images and apply the incrementals back into the primary tier of whatever host you were trying to recover. This is a model that is painful -- it can take hours; however, this is how most IT organizations today meet their recovery time objectives.”

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