{"id":5981,"date":"2016-01-13T07:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=5981"},"modified":"2015-11-29T21:38:33","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T05:38:33","slug":"cloud-continuity-disaster-planning-for-cloud-disruptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/cloud-continuity-disaster-planning-for-cloud-disruptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Continuity: Disaster Planning for Cloud Disruptions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cloud computing elements\u00a0are increasingly being architected as a key piece of business continuity plans. \u00a0With the cloud, even if office buildings burn down, data is still safe in the cloud.<\/p>\n

The problem is though, what if something happens to your data in the cloud?<\/p>\n

For example, last October, Stephen Spector,<\/a> Cloud Evangelist at HP, wrote that<\/a> “we have made the decision to double-down on our private and managed cloud capabilities.” \u00a0And with that, HP announced that they will shut down\u00a0their public cloud operations by the end of January, less than four months after the announcement. \u00a0In cases like this, users need to scramble to find alternatives. \u00a0If your on-premise vendor goes belly up, the software continues to run on your servers, usually providing you plenty of time to come up with an alternative.<\/p>\n

If cloud\u00a0businesses shutter their operations, what happens to the businesses that have been relying on them? \u00a0The shutdown of any cloud operation could be very disruptive to a business, but the shutdown of SaaS operations, in particular, can\u00a0cause real havoc; businesses need to identify alternative applications, deploy those apps, and migrate their data.<\/p>\n

A survey by IDG Research Services<\/a> found that:<\/p>\n