IT leaders look to the cloud for backup and recovery

A new survey of over 250 senior IT executives reveals that 89 percent of IT leaders are planning on implementing more cloud based disaster recovery in the next year. The study by disaster recovery and business continuity specialist Quorum also reveals that 80 percent of IT leaders say it takes more than an hour for them to recover from a server failure, with more than 25 percent saying they need more than two hours. The problem is that 98 percent of IT leaders believe that speed of recovery plays an important role, with over 70 percent claiming it's extremely critical… [Continue Reading]