The Real Disaster: Three Reasons Why DR to the Cloud Can Fail ...

Words by: Ziv Kedem

1. The replication technologies used by your Cloud Service Provider may slow down your IT environment.
   Many replication technologies utilize snapshots to make a copies of data, slowing production environments and taking resources from your critical applications and systems. Disaster Recovery, as important as it is, should not hinder your critical business systems.
2. Most Cloud service providers charge for bandwidth utilized to send data to their Cloud, resulting in a costly expense.
   Many replication solutions do not have built-in compression and network optimization tools. Replication without compression can become quite costly, as network costs are often quoted by service providers on a per-GB (gigabyte) basis.
3. Your service provider?s Cloud-based replication site needs to work with your existing storage and technologies.

Currently, Cloud service providers need to offer the same storage and technologies as their customers in order to serve as a replication and recovery site. If you and your Cloud provider are using different storage and technologies, the process of replicating data to their cloud can be costly and involve some complex, manual processes.

What can you do to make sure your company does not fall victim to failures in these key areas?

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About the Author:

Ziv Kedem is co-founder and CEO of Zerto, a company providing disaster recovery and business continuity solutions for virtualized data centers and Cloud environments.

Source: http://thecloudmagazine.com/real-disaster-reasons-dr-cloud-fail/

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