WHY THE CONCERN?

Many companies think that once their data is hosted with a reputable cloud vendor, their disaster recovery responsibilities end. After all, some vendors boast they have 99.9999% “data durability” or more. But “data availability” may only be 99.99%, and this may be a cause for concern.

Furthermore, cloud based data can be vulnerable to accidental permanent deletion of older data, misalignment of cloud retention policies with company retention policies, malicious deletions, and malware attacks.

If you do lose your data and you are able to establish that it’s your vendor’s fault, what is your compensation other than service credits for a service you no longer trust? This is why companies who put important workloads in the cloud, still have to think about backup and disaster recovery.