Adoption Of Cloud Recovery Service Increases

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1. Gartner research has discovered a growing uptake of recovery-as-a-service (RAAS) among businesses More and more companies are adopting a cloud-based recovery service, known as recovery-as-a-service (RaaS), said Gartner. It predicted that by 2014, 30 percent of midsize companies will have adopted recovery-in-the-cloud to support IT operations recovery, up from just over 1 percent today. Cloud Recovery RaaS describes the managed replication of virtual machines (VMs) and production data in a service provider’s cloud, together with the means to activate the VMs to support either recovery testing or actual recovery operations. The location of the data centre equipment, the party housing the provider’s cloud equipment and the price vary by provider. (Read Full Article)

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