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This article is part of the December 2012/January 2013, Vol. 18 issue of Disaster recovery ascends to the cloud
Jessica Carroll, managing director of IT and digital media at the United States Golf Association in Far Hills, N.J., was something of a pioneer in her embrace of cloud disaster recovery and business continuity. At the end of the day, the best answer to comfort with cloud DR/BC is test, test, test. Jessica Carroll, managing director of IT and digital media, United States Golf Association In 2008, when cloud computing was still a blip on the technology horizon, Carroll was faced with the challenge of bringing her '90s-era IT shop into the 21st century. She knew that tape rotation and colocation weren't going to be the wave of the future. Higher expectations for disaster recovery -- quick, seamless, gap-free -- led her to consider and ultimately adopt a cloud disaster recovery solution from IBM. "It enabled us to port our data to an off-site location without adding strain to the administration of managing the backups, without adding huge amounts of infrastructure and without unreasonable costs," she said. With the cloud-based data backup solution in place, the... Access >>>
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Survey shows sharp uptick in appetite for cloud disaster recovery
by Karen Goulart, Features Writer
TechTarget's 2012 Cloud Pulse survey shows a growing interest in cloud disaster recovery among businesses already using other cloud solutions.
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Survey shows sharp uptick in appetite for cloud disaster recovery
by Karen Goulart, Features Writer
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Disaster recovery in the cloud takes on new significance post-Sandy
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