| | February 20168CIOReviewA few years ago the cloud was a new technology model, one that generated voluminous blizzards of hype, speculation and concerns. Today it's a widely accepted modus operandi and one that is rapidly growing from banks in Rwanda using it as a branch communication platform to global enterprises bringing together geographically dispersed employees for more effective collaboration. Of course there are still concerns, especially around security when using public clouds, but the cloud has virtually penetrated every area of technology endeavour, including storing data. It's inevitable that data storage and backup is going to move more and more to the cloud. Already there's a grounds well among enterprises that are either moving to or considering cloud-based backup and recovery to support a virtual environment and provide business continuity. In fact, it's fair to say that huge amounts of critical data are already being stored in the cloud. In this sense a growing number of enterprises are investing in secondary business continuity plans which are offsite. When physical servers go down, offsite redundancy enables organizations to get back into operation quickly. Backup and recovery is a critical part of business continuity By Paul Lipman, CEO, BullGuard The Future of Data Backup; in the Cloud and FreeIN MY OPINIONPaul Lipman
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