The data that we create every day is what we rely on to keep business moving forward. What if one day the data is no longer available? This may be due to ransomware, natural disaster, infrastructure failure or theft. How can your company recover from an incident like this? There are many different directions we can take this conversation but for right now let’s just focus how we are backing the data up.

The “Cloud”: the wonderful, magical buzz-word that aims to solve all of IT’s cost issues and ease of access to business data. Depending on what side of the IT organization one falls The Cloud can either be a worthwhile way to save on IT expenditures and maintenance costs or yet another third-party service that requires management, recurring service charges, and worry about the security of the organization’s data.