Business Continuity and the Cloud CYB/205

Business Continuity and the Cloud

Many businesses are in the process assessing the benefits and risks associated with using cloud services for business continuity, disaster recovery, and moving from working from a local data center. However, there are pros and cons to every decision. Boards should address these formally to see what works best with the business module. A paradigm shift from a PC-centric to acloud-computing environment has occurred because of rapid and continuous improvements in the IT environments. With the expansion ofcloudcomputing, various types ofcloudservicesare emerging, collectively known as XaaS (that is, 'everything as aservice'), including Infrastructure as aService, Platform as...