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5 Benefits of Disaster Recovery in the Cloud

Managing and protecting critical corporate data

Published August 2017

One of the biggest use cases for the cloud – in fact, the biggest, in the case of hosted private cloud – is for backup and disaster recovery. It adds up to one thing: Organisations are counting on the cloud to make sure they retain access to their critical corporate data.

IDC estimates that backup-as-a-service and recover-as-a-service will account for $1.023 billion by 2018. And Gartner predicts that by 2020, 90% of disaster recovery (DR) operations will run in the cloud.

As the cloud has become more accepted, an increasing number of organisations have been putting their data into the cloud. But for the cloud to become a useful repository for disaster recovery, that means that organisations need to be able to get their data out as well.