Who Has Your Data? In The Cloud, It’s Not You…
The news last week was that EMC was closing its Atmos cloud storage service with immediate effect – you can keep using it for developmental purposes but that’s about all.
Why did it close? Industry analysts said that it never took off, and recent surveys show that it is still a way off becoming mainstream.
So… what if you have data in a cloud service provider and it decides to shut down the service? EMC isn’t the first to do this, and it won’t be the last – you do need a contingency plan. In this case, there is a grace period where you can get your data out – but, as a simple task, workout how much data you have and how much bandwidth and figure out how long it would take to get the information out. This is a simplistic view as everyone else will also be trying to get their data, so bandwidth is going to be under severe strain (the equivalent of a run on the banks…) Do you have enough local storage to hold it all and if you have data being processed by an application, then will you be able to get your hands on the application as well?
Let’s assume you did manage to get your data out, then how long will it take to get it reloaded onto another service provider’s cloud and get the application back up and running?
Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery needs to take into account outsourced (out-tasked) IT services and have contingency plans for service outages and shutdowns – planning should start now… after all there’s no time like the present.
Guy Bunker
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Very interesting, I don’t think most people take into consideration just how long it will take to get all of their data back from the cloud. Some cloud services only allow you to pull down a set amount per day which could be a huge problem for someone who has hundreds of GB in the cloud. Thanks for the thought provoking article.