Cloud Storage: Backups in the Cloud

Interested in learning about the pros and cons of cloud backup as well as how cloud storage is changing data protection and disaster recovery? Wondering how to determine if cloud data backup is appropriate for your installation? If so, then this is the session for you!  

Our speaker will discuss the key considerations and some currently available options to combine the data backup and recovery aspects of the Continuity Management, Service Level Management, and Capacity Management processes by taking advantage of a Cloud-based infrastructure. He will review the major benefits and challenges of cloud-based backup solutions, such as data security, network bandwidth, and service level achievement; cloud-based backup architectures including remote server hosting, local server hosting, and shared hosting; considerations in vendor selection; and illustrations of existing off-the-shelf solutions.

Tracks: Application Technologies and Architectures, Cloud Environments in the Enterprise, Software Architecture, Virtualization for New Services and Virtualization of Existing Resources