There is no doubt that every business wants to protect their company and client base from data loss and inefficiencies. However, many companies do not have the staff or budget to implement proper disaster recovery plans. Yet, by considering Cloud-based disaster recovery plans, business owners might not realize that it can become much more reliable and cost-efficient. Below we will examine the top reasons for considering a cloud-based disaster recovery plan.

Ease of Getting Started

When managing a traditional disaster recovery plan, it requires extensive time, budget and staff that smaller businesses may not have access to. By making the switch over to cloud-based recovery systems, you don’t have the expensive fees associated with traditional recovery plans. Cloud-based recovery plans offer a simple, secure, and automatic service for recovering and copying data to and from a secured Cloud-based site.

Lower Cost Alternative

When looking to off-site backups, the fees of the offsite location, personnel, and infrastructure can start piling up very quickly, that’s why cloud-based backups are starting to grow in popularity. In the past, traditional disaster recovery solutions forced businesses into plans that were either too costly or left them with inadequate protection. By going to a cloud-based disaster recovery provider, businesses can select a plan from them that is tailored to the specific needs of the company. These providers have very straightforward plans on a pay-per-use pricing model, allowing companies to pay only for the services they need.

Simplified Environment

Personally creating or utilizing a managed service provider to create an efficient and comprehensive disaster recovery plan can prove to be a very complex process to obtain and apply. To simplify this action, it is best to use the services of a cloud backup vendor. In doing so, the sometimes overwhelming burden of maintaining and securing backups and program infrastructure would transfer from MSPs and IT administrators to the cloud service provider. The time and energy spent to recover lost files can be managed more consistently and more simply through the cloud-based recovery system.

Management Consistency

Unfortunately, most of us have crossed paths with an individual at some point who has experienced a PC crash and an inevitable loss of information from their hard drives. Imagine, on a much larger scale, the impact that a “crash” could have on a business venture. It could mean countless staff hours and resources. These resources would be applied to ongoing maintenance and monitoring of a disaster recovery solution as well; not including training new skills and manual processes, which require a good amount of time to learn. A cloud-based disaster recovery system in connection to an onsite VMware environment provides a single interface which allows for admins to choose the UI that they are most comfortable and familiar with. In relation, both workflow execution and task management are present in the VCloud Air Console and VSphere replication, ensuring accessibility to the recovery platform at any and all times.

Self-Service Protection

A trusted cloud service provider eases the minds of organizations utilizing this service because their availability for technical support and services gives MSPs and IT admins confidence through their 100% up-time cloud service-level agreement (SLA), which ensures their backups will be available in the event of a catastrophe. Industry specific regulations are adhered to, such as HIPAA and PIPEDA, allowing businesses to be assured that when sending and storing data off-site it is protected by operating within regulation guidelines.