Comments on: Data Centers Prepare for Hurricane Sandy https://www.colocationamerica.com/blog/data-centers-brace-for-hurricane-sandy Dedicated Servers and Colocation Services | Colocation America Thu, 02 Nov 2023 15:44:16 +0000 hourly 1 By: James https://www.colocationamerica.com/blog/data-centers-brace-for-hurricane-sandy#comment-333 Wed, 17 Jul 2013 19:50:36 +0000 http://cawp/?p=613#comment-333 Thanks for your comment Teckmea. That’s a great point and many may not realize backing up to remote locations is safer than simply writing data to hard-drives located on your laptop. My concern is, even cloud based servers could potentially be affected by disasters such as Sandy. I suppose it all comes down to how big your network is and how many remote locations your backing up to. Still though, Cloud is an important aspect of redundancy. Nice article.

]]> By: Teckmea https://www.colocationamerica.com/blog/data-centers-brace-for-hurricane-sandy#comment-332 Wed, 17 Jul 2013 19:49:16 +0000 http://cawp/?p=613#comment-332 Having a Backup and Recovery plan is critical these days. This recent hurricane Sandy could be a good example or lesson. Besides significant property damage, Hurricane Sandy will cost billions of dollars in lost business, and partial or complete data loss from companies’ physical data-centers.

It’s an unfortunate lesson to have to learn the hard way, especially this hard way. But, natural disasters like hurricanes, floods or superstorms are dramatic examples of the value of cloud solutions when it comes to resiliency in the face of a catastrophe, and the ability to recover and resume operations as quickly as possible.

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