April, 202019 HARNESSING THE POWER OF MULTI-CLOUD DISASTER RECOVERYBY GARY LIM, DIRECTOR OF SALES ENGINEERING, COMMVAULTWhat would your organisation do if your cloud provider gets hacked and suffers a sudden power outage? When it comes to accountability, the Cloud Security Alliance reports that three in five organisations believe their cloud service providers should be held responsible for a data breach. This widespread and troubling misconception points to an urgency for organisations to take ownership of their business-critical applications on the cloud. As organisations send more and more data into the cloud and adopt multi-cloud strategies with solutions and services from a wide range of providers, the challenge of managing these environments also effectively increases. Disaster recovery (DR) in particular needs to be carefully considered. According to 451 research, more than 90 percent of organisations in the Asia Pacific region already have multi-cloud environments with varying degrees of interoperability. It's clear why multi-cloud has taken off so rapidly in the region ­ organisations can take advantage of the ability to back up and replicate data across any number of different cloud vendors. Using multiple clouds for data protection also means that you can avoid `putting all of your eggs in one basket' so to speak. It gives the organisation the ability to back up one cloud to another, between clouds, across clouds or within clouds. Multi-cloud DR, is therefore incredibly flexible. In today's business environment where data is a mission critical asset, this Gary LimCXO NSIGHTS
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