The Stormy Side of Only Using One Cloud Service Provider
Posted on Tue, Aug 09, 2011

The widespread adoption of cloud computing and storage services has been a result of the increase in IT efficiency and productivity. However, relying solely on the same cloud service provider as a means of handling your production data and backing up your essential data can prove risky since there is ultimately one unknown party controlling the storage and backup of this data. Although the cloud seems like “magic”, there is fundamentally a loss of control experienced by the company depending on a single cloud provider for their computing infrastructure. Keeping this factor into consideration, appointing a cloud backup provider such as RenovoData as an additional source to ensure data recoverability in the event of a disaster provides a seamless resolution.
Fundamentally, it is imperative to backup the cloud data with an offsite data backup company as part of a standard disaster recovery plan. Using an offsite data backup company will mitigate risks of data loss by providing protection against losses due to hardware failure or file corruption. Additionally, this will serve as a reliable platform where snapshots of data are saved, giving the user a source of reference in case changes need to be made.
True redundancy would be to eliminate this single point of failure such as exclusively choosing one vendor to store and backup an organization’s valuable information. The hybrid cloud storage services offered by RenovoData provide the support needed to prevent irreparable data storage mistakes from happening by backing up the cloud to better prevent a disaster.