Cloud Computing

The Need for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Strategy

November 7, 2012

The cause of the disaster may The business environment being technology enabled, the chances of disaster striking is more than ever before. Disasters can strike the IT infrastructure of any organizations anytime and when they do, it leaves a big impact on the enterprise's capability of serving the customers and continuing with business. be either a natural calamity, power outage or a man-made one such as strikes or blasts, cyber attacks or an inadvertent deletion of critical data or a system failure. Irrespective of the type of disaster, every organization need to have in place an effective disaster recovery plan.

The organization's operational management needs to put forth a plan of action, provide input and support during such emergencies and be prepared to face the disaster in a systematic manner. Business continuity and disaster recovery planning are processes that help organizations prepare beforehand for disruptive events. Today's business scenario being a very competitive one, such disruptions in business continuity will bring about great irreparable losses to the brand name with a drastic effect on customer loyalties.

Technology giants have provided enterprises with solutions to keep cyber criminals and fraudsters at bay. Further, the concept of data centers to house the IT infrastructure of the widely networked organizations is a step towards maintaining physical security of business critical information from any external threats and intrusions and protecting data leakage from the storage servers. Further, the advent of cloud computing services have also facilitated enterprises with methods to access data and information in case of disasters.

What is a disaster recovery process? It is a coordinated activity that will enable every enterprises to recover its IT and business from the disrupted state. However, research shows 90% of the business that face disruption due to disasters finds difficult to bounce back due to lack of business continuity and disaster recovery strategies. The strategies for business continuity should therefore include restoring business operations from alternate locations, IT equipment or even through alternative methods including manual methods.

Irrespective of the enterprise being a small and medium one or a large global conglomerate, the business continuity and disaster recovery plans will help in securing the enterprises and the critical data against any form of disruptions. A robust plan is one which will

· Protect vital data against potential threats

· Minimize disruption and operational losses

· Manage the recovery operation effectively

· Restore the confidence among the stakeholders

· Manage brand image and reputation

With business continuity and disaster recovery being a continuous process leading service providers with their expertise and technological know-how provides enterprise end-to-end services from strategy consulting to implementation and maintenance. With the help of impact analysis, review reports and cost-benefit analysis, identifies threats and its business impact and customizes the disaster recovery solution in tune with business needs.

Easy Ways to Go Public on Cloud

November 2, 2012

The most important ingredient for public cloud computing is a security model that allows reconciling scalability and multi-tenancy along with the trust requirement. When enterprises upgrade their computing environments with data, identity as well the cloud infrastructure, it is essential that they give up some control. For being able to attain this they need to have full faith in the cloud services and the new age solution providers and adhere to the cloud events and processes.

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