{"id":6402,"date":"2016-07-04T13:53:02","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T03:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/?p=6402"},"modified":"2016-07-04T13:53:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T03:53:02","slug":"worlds-top-it-advisory-says-get-your-head-out-of-the-sand-when-it-comes-to-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/worlds-top-it-advisory-says-get-your-head-out-of-the-sand-when-it-comes-to-the-cloud","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s Top IT Advisory Says &#8216;Get Your Head out of the Sand When It Comes to the Cloud&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/07\/AAEAAQAAAAAAAAMQAAAAJGFkYzU4ODkzLTQxNTQtNDVjNC04OTQxLTM2MzVkMGExM2JjMw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6406 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/07\/AAEAAQAAAAAAAAMQAAAAJGFkYzU4ODkzLTQxNTQtNDVjNC04OTQxLTM2MzVkMGExM2JjMw.jpg\" alt=\"AWS crash sydney IT advisory Gartner says get head out of sand.\" width=\"620\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/07\/AAEAAQAAAAAAAAMQAAAAJGFkYzU4ODkzLTQxNTQtNDVjNC04OTQxLTM2MzVkMGExM2JjMw.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/07\/AAEAAQAAAAAAAAMQAAAAJGFkYzU4ODkzLTQxNTQtNDVjNC04OTQxLTM2MzVkMGExM2JjMw-300x121.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The world&#8217;s foremost IT advisory has a message for global businesses\u2014get your head out of the sand when it comes to the cloud.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This message comes on the back of the Amazon Web Services&#8217; (AWS) crash in June, in which Amazon&#8217;s Sydney-based cloud\u00a0went down in a storm. Customers were cut off from the cloud for up to 10 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The outage wreaked havoc on\u00a0banks and other businesses, including big name players such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itsafinancialworld.net\/2012\/12\/commonwealth-bank-of-australia-run-by.html\">Commonwealth Bank<\/a>, MYOB and Brandscreen. It even hit players of popular mobile phone game Fruit Ninja.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Even after power was restored at AWS, a software bug meant recovery was slower than predicted, further inconveniencing their cloud-dependent customers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/olivehuanghai\">Gartner research director Olive Huang<\/a> said businesses using AWS and similar services took an &#8220;ostrich approach&#8221; to cloud business continuity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can have redundancy, but it costs money,&#8221; she said. &#8220;People go to the cloud very ill-prepared.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6408\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6408\" style=\"width: 489px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/07\/5924232-16x9-940x529.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6408\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/07\/5924232-16x9-940x529.jpg\" alt=\"IT Advisory says after AWS sydney incident cloud is not panacea\" width=\"499\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/07\/5924232-16x9-940x529.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/07\/5924232-16x9-940x529-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/07\/5924232-16x9-940x529-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6408\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unfortunately, your Cloud providers are still at the mercy of the original cloud systems.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Huang added that unlike IT departments running in-house systems\u2014who usually had business continuity and disaster recovery plans\u2014companies who bought cloud often had no contingency plans. They expected cloud suppliers to take care of that side of the house.<\/p>\n<p>They do this &#8220;because of the cloud supplier marketing machine and the thought that they (the cloud providers) are so big that if they go down, they should be back up quickly,&#8221; Huang said.<\/p>\n<p>The result of this approach is easily seen in what happened in Sydney last month: companies losing their business-critical systems\u00a0with no fallback for hours at a time. For banks and medical applications, the results of these outages is extremely dire.<\/p>\n<p>The solution? Properly preparing yourself for the worst and making sure nothing can compromise your business-critical systems.<\/p>\n<p>While cloud has a role, it&#8217;s not a panacea for everything. Hybrid solutions that blend private, public clouds and on-premises solutions are far more stable. All of this data needs to be backed up and regularly tested to make sure it can be quickly restored during a disaster like at AWS.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/07\/3-2-1-Backup-Rule.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6410\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/07\/3-2-1-Backup-Rule.png\" alt=\"The IT Advisory says don't just rely on cloud providers for business continuity\" width=\"337\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First, you need to create three backups, two on local devices and one regularly stored off site. \u00a0We advise using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/backupassist.html\">BackupAssist<\/a> for this, as it includes alerts on the stability of your backups. (You can try it out with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/BackupAssist\/download2.php\">30-day free trial here<\/a>) If you&#8217;re planning to use a hybrid solution involving public or private cloud storage, getting the product&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/backupassist\/features\/specialized\/cloudserverbackup.html\">Offsite Backups add-on<\/a> is essential. You get free use of this add-on during the trial stage.<\/p>\n<p>You then want to subject these backups to regular test restores and recoveries. Even big businesses like AWS need to do this, or else you&#8217;ll find yourself totally toppled by something like a software bug. Don&#8217;t leave your head in the sand and rely on cloud companies to entirely protect your business continuity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The world&#8217;s foremost IT advisory has a message for global businesses\u2014get your head out of the sand when it comes to the cloud. This message comes on the back of the Amazon Web Services&#8217; (AWS) crash in June, in which Amazon&#8217;s Sydney-based cloud\u00a0went down in a storm. Customers were cut off from the cloud &#8230; <a title=\"World&#8217;s Top IT Advisory Says &#8216;Get Your Head out of the Sand When It Comes to the Cloud&#8217;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/worlds-top-it-advisory-says-get-your-head-out-of-the-sand-when-it-comes-to-the-cloud\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World&#8217;s Top IT Advisory Says &#8216;Get Your Head out of the Sand When It Comes to the Cloud&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,23],"tags":[36,461,37,462,463],"class_list":["post-6402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interest","category-news","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-web-services","tag-cloud","tag-cloud-continuity","tag-gartner"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast 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