ANALYSIS: Moving to the Cloud? Know Who’s Got Your Backup.

As more businesses begin to realize the cost savings and efficiency that can come with migrating data and operations from on-premises servers to the cloud, standard contractual terms used by major cloud services providers are proving to contain shortcomings. What’s the remedy for that? Often it’s not contractual: Instead, plan to keep an array of backup options handy. Companies that rely entirely on a single cloud infrastructure vendor as the foundation of their business continuity and disaster recovery strategy may be surprised to learn that, when it comes to averting an actual crisis, their contract does not promise all that ...