What are the advantages of cloud storage backup?

Scalable, cost-saving

Enterprises using cloud storage backup can rely on the unlimited scalability of third cloud providers without worrying about investment issues. In fact, a pay-as-you-go model reduces the annoyance of backup purchases and implementations. This approach allows us to anticipate and manage capacity growth and operating costs.

Efficient and reliable

Cloud providers often provide state-of-the-art technologies such as disk-based backup, compression, encryption, data de-duplication, server virtualization, storage virtualization, application optimization data protection, and so on. In addition to the security of authentication requirements, most providers provide 7x24 monitoring, management, and reporting, which may not be affordable to the average company.

Reduce recovery time for small amounts of data

When recovering from tape, the administrator needs to find the tape, load it, locate the data, and recover the data. Recovering data from the cloud is much faster; it does not need to deliver tapes, dispose of, and find time from tape storage points. Data that needs to be recovered is transmitted over a wide area network (WAN), saving time and eliminating the need to build local tape devices.

Usability

For companies that cannot afford a disaster recovery architecture, or can afford to, but realize that by outsourcing companies that can increase efficiency and reduce costs, cloud backups can be attractive. A copy of the outbound data is accessible through any Internet connection or device, adding no-fault in the event of a regional disaster.

Cloud backup: Not without faults!

Backup data and Full recovery

Depending on the size of the total data, the first full backup and full recovery data can be too time-consuming and have a significant impact on the production system.

Size limit

Depending on the bandwidth available, each company will have a reasonable threshold for the amount of data that can be uploaded to the cloud on a daily basis. This restriction has an impact on the backup strategy.

Terminate Service

Understanding the best "rollout strategy" is as important as reviewing specific features. Indicators to consider include service termination costs, early withdrawal fees, cancellation of service notifications, data retrieval methods, and so on.

Non-existent Service Level Agreements

The performance of the service and the "assurance" that the backup can be successfully completed are often not controlled by the service provider. For example, whether there is sufficient bandwidth, the amount of data that needs to be transmitted over the network, and the accessibility of the protected system can result in non-compliance with service level agreements.

Cloud Backup: Are you fit?

As a storage manager, you should correctly evaluate the challenges, capabilities, and assets that your business faces, which will help you determine whether a cloud-based backup strategy is better than continuing to rely on full internal backup. Here are a few things to consider:

Budget

In-house backup and cloud backup you might as well make a comparison: for tape backup strategies, there is the maintenance of hardware, software, media and storage costs, and for mixed cloud services, you spend three years operating expenses.