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Power outages caused by Hurricane Sandy have shown a spotlight on the vulnerability of locally sourced company data.
Estimates have pegged total business costs of Hurricane Sandy at $65.6 billion, much of which can be attributed to data loss. A study by disaster recovery author Jon Toiga reports that a company that experiences a computer outage lasting for more than 10 days, as many did in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, will never fully recover financially and that 50 percent of those companies will be out of business within five years.
As a result, more local businesses are looking more seriously at putting their data in the cloud, choosing to grin and bear related drawbacks that were previously deal breakers. Even those companies that had been casually looking at cloud computing have accelerated their timelines following the storm.
Linda Horgan, chief information officer for Uniondale-based Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, said the law firm had been looking at cloud solutions for data backup since the spring, but moved up its implementation following Hurricane Sandy. The law firm's new solution will go live in the next couple of weeks, Horgan said.
Placing information and data in the cloud means it's accessible from anywhere and won't be lost if a company server holding the information is damaged or corrupted. In addition, as long as employees have an Internet connection, they can access their files and important information...