4 – Cloud Computing IS Disaster Management
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Now, obviously, if there is a category 5 hurricane approaching, a hefty winter storm making its way to your town, or an out of control wild fire near your vicinity, you certainly need to have some business disaster planning in place! However, with cloud computing, this disaster management and planning is not something you have to worry about when it comes to your computer.
If you are a business owner, you most likely have a:
Business Continuity Plan – The protocol and action plan for when anticipated things go wrong (such as components or servers failing, power outages, human error, etc.)
Disaster Management or Recovery Plan – This is a plan for the unexpected (such as natural disasters, fires, planes falling out of the sky, etc.)
Most experts agree that when it comes to information technology and especially disaster management, cloud computing is the way to go. In fact, it basically serves AS your disaster management plan!
When all of your valuable information is stored outside of your computer, then you no longer have to be concerned with the destruction of your files and valuable information, in the unfortunate instance that your computer network is destroyed.
Disaster recovery traditionally involves the backup of all a company’s data on backup servers, which can be easily accessed. These backup servers can be on site or contracted out, but the ownership of the hardware or subcontracting of these services can be quite expensive and form a substantial part of an IT budget for an organization.
A cloud disaster recovery service brings peace of mind to businesses that can’t necessarily afford the hardware and 
capital costs involved with in-house disaster recovery provision. It completely eliminates the need for expensive hardware, as data stored in the cloud is on the servers of service providers. Then those service providers, in turn, have their own system of remote backup servers at different locations which constantly back up any customer data that they receive. This way, you are able to access it at any time.
If your data is saved in the cloud, it will have a number of backups which can assist in data recovery for any material stored in it. This creates a type of organizational back-up that any individual business may find very expensive to duplicate.
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-Martin
