Backup and disaster recovery are currently two of the most popular uses of cloud software in the enterprise. Providers of such software have experienced boom times, with a few even going public. While they’ve enjoyed tremendous success over the past few years, they would be advised to branch into a wider array of services soon. A rising group of cloud-integrated storage vendors have integrated backup and disaster recovery into the very fabric of their complete storage offering, at no additional cost to the customer.
It’s not surprising that backup and disaster recovery would be among the first applications for cloud storage – tape backup is difficult to manage and costly to maintain, and cloud backup/DR represented a low-risk way to experiment with cloud services….