As cloud computing matures, an increasing number of organizations are starting to reap the potential benefits and cost savings gained by migrating their applications and IT infrastructures to mainstream cloud providers. In terms of disaster recovery, the cloud can offer significant advantages over traditional approaches by offering rapid provisioning, faster recovery times, and multisite/multi-region availability, at a fraction of the cost of conventional disaster recovery. But just as with traditional DR, there is no one-size-fits-all solution or single blueprint for all to follow. Each firm's requirements are specific, and thus will need to be addressed individually.
Moving SharePoint workloads to the cloud is a hot topic for most CIOs/CTOs, but initial conversations generally center on performance and security; disaster recovery often does not make the first cut. Nonetheless, disaster recovery in the context of cloud environments is a very important topic and should...