Back during the times of floppy disks and tapes, disaster and data recovery used to be two different aspects.  Creating data backups on tapes used to be time-consuming and a hectic job. The disk backup did ease the time-taking aspect, yet backup and recovery of data during times of emergency turned out a tedious task.

In today’s world, Cloud has changed the entire scenario. Not only does it allow data backup facilities, but disaster recovery as well. While off-site backups can take time to retrieve from storage and then deliver, instant Disaster Recovery from a cloud data centre means that anyone can  back up and run data in a matter of hours. This procedure is drastically reducing Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and other factors, as well as obliterating the threat of unstable network configurations or incompatible drives.

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