Hey All - this is Lynn Shourds, President & CTO of HEROware. These days we're hearing more and more about the Cloud. I read an interesting article this morning from Scott Raymond on ZDNet.com.
Scott wrote about the affordability of online backups for small and medium businesses.
In my humble opinion, online backups are great, but only if you have your initial line of defense shored up first. The 24x7 business continuity model requires local high-availability along with off-site (online) backups for disaster recovery. To add to this model, long-term archives of business data rounds out the entire solution.
Since the high majority of outages occur locally it seems to make the most sense to protect your business with a local backup that is real-time, fast, reliable, and easily recoverable. Getting your data off-site to the Cloud is secondary, but none the less something that should be done to complete your 24x7 business continuity.
Remember, business only resumes after an outage if you have the right systems in place; both locally and in the Cloud. These systems may seem like just an insurance policy, but it sure feels good when you need them.
Lynn
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