Disaster recovery in the cloud

Recent figures from the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) reinforce what we already know – the adoption of cloud services is becoming more commonplace every day. The research reports that 61% of UK businesses are now embracing cloud services – an increase of 13% since 2011. 1 As computing moves away from onsite server rooms to cloud services and Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), disaster recovery becomes much more complex. Managing disaster recovery for your business when you use several different technologies from several different providers is a far more complex task. Oscar Arean of Databarracks asks what can be done to recover from a disaster when using cloud services, and who is accountable.