Sam ForbesManaging director, 6YS
The recent floods have prompted an increase in the number of inquiries regarding cloud computing.
As you would expect, some inquiries have come from flood affected businesses. But we have also seen an increase in general inquiries.
While these haven’t been specifically addressed as inquiries relating to disaster recovery I don’t think it’s a coincidence that we are seeing an uptick in interest.
Perhaps that’s not surprising given the media coverage and the number of cloud providers advertising assistance.
I think what has really captured attention is coverage of businesses working in the cloud that has highlighted their ability to keep working through the crisis.
A light bulb has gone off for some people where they are now thinking about business continuity instead of disaster recovery; that is, a shift from how to recover from an outage to avoiding one altogether.
The nature of this disaster really highlighted the issue of access and power. If your equipment is safe but you can’t access it because your office is unusable or doesn’t have power, you still face an outage.
Perhaps not a critical outage but enough that it’s getting people to look around at options.There are many factors a business considers in making the shift to a cloud environment. Businesses are not going to move to the cloud solely for the DR benefits. But the appeal of a service that doesn’t go down has certainly captured business attention
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