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CAN ENTERPRISES COUNT ON THE CLOUD FOR Data Protection

CAN ENTERPRISES COUNT ON THE CLOUD FOR Data Protection

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CAN ENTERPRISES COUNT ON THE CLOUD FOR

Data Protection

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Contents

Introduction

Executive Summary

Why Enterprises Are Moving to the Cloud? Enterprises Benefit from Cloud When It Comes to Data Protection Robust data protection in Simple and Cost-Efficient Manner

Conclusion

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Introduction

Executive Summary

Cloud storage has been the hot topic for debate amongst CIOs lately. Thanks to various outages as well as an out-and-out shutdown of one provider. Resultantly, organizations are thinking of reassessing their cloud strategy when it comes to data protection. These outages have drawn attention of businesses towards significance of data availability. Seamless accessibility of data is just as imperative with data security as it is with any other process. After all, when backup data is required it typically is indeed necessary.

Irrespective of these negative headlines, an enhanced cloud-based data protection solution is an idyllic use of cloud storage. It offers remote and geographically dispersed data protection so that in any event of a site or regional catastrophe, an enterprise’s digital assets can be instantly recovered.

Therefore, it becomes significant for enterprises to look for a cloud data protection solution that will be able to offer unswervingly reliable service for years to come.

This whitepaper highlights what is driving businesses to shift gears to cloud these days. The study also suggests how enterprises are reconnoitering their cloud strategy when it comes to data protection. Despite potential cloud myths are circled around, enterprises are seeking cloud data protection solutions to keep their digital assets safe.

Why Enterprises Are Moving to the Cloud? Rapidly evolving day-to-day business and consumer life has driven enterprises to embrace cloud to enhance efficiency, streamline processes, and bring automation to business operation. Besides, cloud computing also helps businesses to improve costs, scalability, market adaptability, speed and access to data.

Contents

Introduction

Executive Summary

Why Enterprises Are Moving to the Cloud? Enterprises Benefit from Cloud When It Comes to Data Protection Robust data protection in Simple and Cost-Efficient Manner

Conclusion

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Contents

Introduction

Executive Summary

Why Enterprises Are Moving to the Cloud? Enterprises Benefit from Cloud When It Comes to Data Protection Robust data protection in Simple and Cost-Efficient Manner

Conclusion

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Reduce IT Capital Expenses

Cost flexibility is the main attribute that allures an enterprise to incline towards cloud.

There is a revelation that this innovative technology carries the prowess to cut down fixed

IT costs, and move to a more variable “pay as you go” cost structure. Simply put, an

organization can shift from capital expenses to operational expenses because of the

omission of software license, server and network equipment costs. By migrating to cloud,

the enterprise only has to pay for resources it requires.

Scalable IT Infrastructure

IT scalability is another crucial attribute of cloud that many enterprises, irrespective of size

and business nature, wish to garner its benefit. However, this technology offers far beyond

IT scalability. It enables an enterprise to easily scale business operations without deploying

an additional server to meet its growing requirements.

Market Adaptability

With cloud server hosting, enterprises can respond to rapidly changing business needs.

This not only makes business operations more agile, but also empowers organizations to

accelerate market time.

Cloud isPowerful for

Business

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Enterprises Benefit from Cloud When It Comes to Data ProtectionWhen it comes to data storage, cloud-based online storage is quickly becoming the

technique of choice. Storing files remotely instead of locally touts an array of ben-

efits for both home and professional users.

Let’s have a quick glance at how enterprises can make most of the cloud-based

storage solutions for improved data protection:

Contents

Introduction

Executive Summary

Why Enterprises Are Moving to the Cloud? Enterprises Benefit from Cloud When It Comes to Data Protection Robust data protection in Simple and Cost-Efficient Manner

Conclusion

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Data Security

Data encryption is the key requirement of any type of cloud based data protection. It should

include encryption of data right from the moment it is out of customer premise till the time

it is placed in storage device of the provider. Besides, critical information should remain

encrypted even while at rest in data center. This ensures complete protection from external

threats and internal breaches.

Beyond encryption it is also imperative that the enterprise recognize what are provider’s

dogmas toward data access. Does the provider’s data center meet the set standards to

maintain controlled and secure access?

Monitoring access is a vital not only to keep data secured, but also instantly accessible. For

instance, a non-authorized access to the data center can lead to critical damage. Data

encryption helps organizations in shielding sensitive information against physical breach,

but also from data unavailability.

Quick and Easy Access to Data

Moving to the cloud enables businesses to speed up data access capability without

compromising data security. For instance, an organization can leverage the benefits of

storing enormous volume of mission-critical business applications in the cloud server which

can eventually be shared with employees, partners and customers within no time.

In addition, moving to the cloud also benefits enterprises from reduced environmental

footprint, improved disaster recovery capabilities to decreased server or software

maintenance or upgrades.

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Geographical Accessibility

Another key attribute is the capability to make data geographically accessible across

diverse sites. For instance, a natural catastrophe may imperil the cloud provider’s data

center. Topographical accessibility ensures that data is readily accessible for retrieval even

if the cloud provider’s primary center is down due to any reason. Geographic accessibility

ascertains that organizations can recover their data through the most effective way

possible rather than being bottlenecked into a one location.

High-end Scalability

Cloud architecture with greater scalability helps in meeting varying business requirements.

A cloud provider should have the competence to scale computing resources and IT staff in

order to anticipate futuristic enterprise growth. Hence, the cloud infrastructure needs to

be designed in such a way that it can expeditiously add more processing nodes, servers and

storage capacity imperative for business sustainability.

Flexible Cloud Design

Every business has their own unique requirements, and not one size is likely to fit all. Many

data centers want to keep a close watch on security and are hesitant to keep their data on

the cloud. A cloud-based data center is an optimal solution that businesses can leverage to

sell their product/services. By implementing stringent access controls and data protection

techniques, they can enjoy seamless business connectivity.

Simplified Operations

Businesses reduce upfront cost and simplify business operations by migrating workloads to

the cloud. Cloud service providers make use of cutting-edge technology to track resource

consumption and efficiently perform data backup operations.

Disaster Recovery

Data is the lifeline of an organization hence the service provider must have right disaster

recovery strategies in place to mitigate all the perils that lead to unexpected data loss. A

duplicate copy of critical data must be stored in diverse offsite locations, so that in any

unanticipated event it can be immediately retrieved.

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Robust data protection in Simple and Cost-Efficient MannerVirtualization and cloud services are the latest buzzwords in the IT industry. The technology provides enterprises flexibility to procure infrastructure and applications from third parties - with the objective to free up internal resources as well as maximize cost savings.

Businesses of all shapes and sizes are investing in various types of cloud backup deployment models to protect and recover their critical data from disruptive events or unexpected catastrophe. The cloud models provide an alternative for in-house data backup solutions while offering a plethora of benefits, including:

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Surveillance

CloudComputing

Storage

CriticalInfrastructureMonitoring

Security

EnvironmentMonitoring

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• A complete suite to safeguard unstructured and structured data. The solution offers a unique framework, which stores enterprise-grade data at multiple levels. This further enables secured dissemination and utilization of data within the cloud environments.

• The cloud models effectively meet regulatory norms pertaining to data privacy and custody. This ensures complete protection of sensitive corporate data while congregating compliance requirements in line with the industry standards.

• Better control and improved business responsiveness to new opportunities and initiatives. Cloud offerings deliver requisite protection for all sensitive applications and information in conjunction with better efficiencies in a cost effective way.

Beyond this, an organization by upgrading its IT infrastructure to the cloud can leverage the ability to access information from multiple locations without any requirement for physical transportation. Plus, minimize server load and backup time with minimal data leakage risks in unforeseen incidents like geographic disasters, cyber-attacks, and equipment failures.

ConclusionEnterprise cloud data protection has become a reality today. That is why major IT players are now coming up with cloud data protection strategies to help the enterprises accomplish business specific goals. After all, cloud has a proven track record of providing far-reaching data protection within its environment while allowing a business owner to scale-up/down as per the user demand.

We hope that you can leverage the knowledge presented in this ebook and apply the same in your business functions.

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