Cloud disaster recovery: Can you trust your provider?


Written by Phil on January 19, 2011 in Business Continuity.

There are thousands of service-level products and their major features within a cloud application stack. How can you be sure it will recover from a business interruption or disaster?

As a information security executive, what are your concerns related to disaster recovery and business continuity of your cloud applications? Today, there are hundreds to thousands of permutations for vendors’ product configurations that may be deployed in the cloud. The sheer number of features supported for each product are mind-numbing.

This makes disaster recovery and business continuity a nightmare. Only financial services companies invest the money necessary to replicate the applications and core infrastructure to ensure that a disaster can be effectively handled. This is too expensive for many small and medium sized corporations.

What is the key to disaster recovery success? The cloud provider needs to minimize the number of product vendors and the corresponding features they deploy. This reduces the number of permutations that must be tested. Hence, a cloud user can have assurance that the cloud provider’s web solution will work for them.

See Cloud disaster recovery: Can you trust your provider? by Gregory Machler for CSO: Security and Risk.

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