The Cloud
Tip 3: Take advantage of cloud.
Cloud services are transforming the way IT organizations build, manage, deploy, scale up and shut down applications. Backup and disaster recovery are perfectly suited for the flexibility and elasticity that the cloud makes available. If you are not taking advantage of this, you are missing out and likely spending too much money and burning too many cycles on backup and continuity.
By leveraging the cloud in your backup and disaster recovery toolset, you can easily address explosive data growth. Instead of continually buying costly on-premises storage to back up local workloads, you can rely on flexible, expandable cloud storage, and the cloud providers' economies of scale. Hybrid cloud backup also makes it easier to provide the physical isolation you need to protect against ransomware. Further, cloud-based backup can be used as the basis for DR as a Service (DRaaS) in order to quickly recover workloads using cloud compute resources in the event of the disaster.
Cloud-connected appliances can provide fine-grained control over which data to upload to your cloud provider, and which business-critical backups must always stay on-premises for near-instant recovery. To protect network performance, you can throttle bandwidth up or down based on the hour of day, or other network traffic.