RSSSecurity Should Be Paramount Concern with Cloud-Based E-Mail Recovery
Cloud-based disaster recovery has become a viable option for safeguarding e-mail, but IT shops need to ask tough questions about data security and resiliency before committing to a vendor, analysts say.
By Jon Brodkin
When evaluating services, note that "there are two distinct capabilities: continuity of service and data protection," Forrester says. "For continuity of service, the offering can range from a Webmail interface for sending and receiving mail during an outage to adding recent (e.g., last week or month) or all messages. For data protection, a cloud provider could either augment or replace multi-site on-premise backup infrastructure."
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