Moving to cloud could be swift but taking this decision may not be easy as it sounds. Security of data is one of the major concern for business houses across and also a deciding factor for a particular cloud hosting provider. Whether Private is / Public or Hybrid, Cloud Security is a macro trend gripping year 2015.

Being security as a concern, disaster recovery (DR), backup and latency are gradually catching up the pace.Research has indicated for 60% of businesses, most of the data loss results due to failure of not having a fully documented plan. With increased concern, customers’ needs to be more oriented towards simple backups & data replication that complements their business needs.

For safe and secure cloud environment, a cloud hosting provider should readily be able to provide DR and business continuity plan to the business houses for the below mentioned criteria:

  1.  A definitive response and latency time to be taken during an event o issue.
  2.  Methods adopted to identify critical time.
  3.  A duration should be provided by Cloud Hosting Provider  to sustain the specific processes for a failover to the primary operation mode.