Farmington Hills, MI (PRWEB) April 03, 2012
Tech-savvy CXOs are realizing today, as the cloud emerges from IT to become an integral part of their everyday business vocabulary, that some services that can be adapted as offerings in the cloud make complete financial and technical sense. According to Logicalis, an international IT solutions and managed services provider, disaster recovery as a service is a perfect example, though experts say many cost-conscious CIOs and other executives still balk at the cost.
Everybody is worried about the price of disaster recovery, says Michael Feil, director of cloud solutions for Logicalis. But what is the price of a business downtime? Feil says company leaders need to take a hard look at numbers they already have on hand. People have downtime numbers based on holidays when the company is closed; they know what it means to be shut down for an entire day, week or more. But, says Feil, they dont want to look at it because doing so cost-justifies disaster recovery as a needed expense. Thats why, Feil says, DR-as-a-Service, which replaces huge capital expenditure (cap-ex) and personnel costs with more manageable operational expenditure (op-ex) figures, is gaining traction.
Analysts say DR-as-a-Service is well suited for mid-sized organizations that dont have the resources for in-house recovery management facilities. Gartner research estimates approximately one-third of middle-market organizations will embrace the cloud for data recovery within the next couple of years, says John P. Morency, research vice president, Systems, Security & Risk, Gartner. Moving disaster recovery to the cloud may well be a smart business move. It takes a significant infrastructure to correctly administer a disaster recovery program. Because they operate on economies of scale and a shared-resources model, cloud providers have the IT equipment, the personnel and the training to provide disaster recovery as a service to mid-sized clients on a large scale more cost effectively and with greater precision than many middle-market organizations can do on their own. For these reasons, Gartner believes DR as a service will steadily gain momentum in this middle-market space.
For such organizations, Logicalis agrees that disaster recovery as a service is a strong alternative to a premises-based business continuity/disaster recovery plan. In fact, the company has outlined six of the top reasons CIOs should put DR-as-a-Service on their radars for early adoption in 2012.
The Top Six Reasons DR-as-a-Service Makes Good Business Sense
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