Cloud Recovery Trends
Posted by amcanty on August 10, 2009
By Peter Laudenslager http://advice.cio.com/dbtk/cloud_recovery_trends
“Cloud computing means many things (Sun’s CTO rattled off at least six different perspectives), but almost all definitions include some key value propositions: scalable on-demand resources, a metered pay-per-use model, access over the Internet, and infrastructure management and optimization that is better than most data centers.
At a more conceptual level, cloud computing abstracts away all the undifferentiated IT tasks. Most businesses don’t add any value to their customers or create any competitive advantage for themselves when they buy, build, configure, and manage servers & storage. This is doubly true for disaster recovery equipment and data centers. Conversely, poor performance in these tasks can cost value and competitive advantage. There is no benefit in doing these tasks well, but there is cost to doing them badly. This is like the opposite of a financial call option – lots of downside risk, but no upside.”
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