MITS6011 Research Report: Cloud Computing in Data Backup and Recovery

This research report examines the effectiveness of cloud computing technology in data backup and recovery. It explores the shift in data storage and computation towards cloud computing, emphasizing its role in providing various services like data storage, databases, and software. The report highlights the benefits of cloud computing, including cost savings, increased productivity, and security, and analyzes its application in ensuring business continuity during catastrophic events. It discusses cloud computing models, such as public and private clouds, and their use in data backup strategies, including the use of cloud backup services for off-site data storage. The report also touches on the implementation of cloud data backup for bolstering data protection, the role of backup software, and the importance of supplemental data protection procedures. The report concludes by emphasizing the growing adoption of cloud data backup by small, medium, and large enterprises and its role as a supplementary backup method for larger companies.

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Report Title:
Cloud computing in data backup and data recovery
Extended Abstract
Presently data storage and the computation sector is being transformed with the
introduction of cloud computing technology. Cloud computing has been commonly
considered to be the effective delivery of the various services with the help of
internet. These kinds of resources includes the tools as well as the applications such
as the data storage, the databases, the servers, the software as well as the networking.
Rather than keeping the files within any proprietary hard drive or even any local
device of storage, the cloud storage allows in making it plausible for saving them
from any kind of remote database. Till the time any electronic device has been
provided with the access to the internet, it would gain the access to all the data as
well as the software programs for executing it. This report intends to analyse the
effectiveness of the cloud computing technology in the task of the data backup and
the data recovery. The cloud computing models and the services are being
extensively used for the task of recovery and the data backup that is required by
majority of the big companies for ensuring the business in continued even during any

catastrophic event. The cloud computing technology has been considered to be the
most common option for people as well as businesses for various reasons that
includes the cost savings, the increased productivity, the speed as well as the
efficiency, the security and the performance. The naming has been provided to the
cloud technology as cloud computing due to the fact that it could easily be accessed
from anywhere with the help of the internet technology.

Introduction
Cloud computing has been described as the common terminology that denotes to the various hosted
services that are provided over the technology of internet [1]. The various kinds of the web hosting, the
services on cloud are primarily sold on the demand, and these services are being provided in the
manner of extensive elasticity that denotes that the users could use the resources of the cloud
computing as much as required and the make the payment for the storage space that has been used. The
companies that are presently providing the cloud services enables the users with the storage of the files
as well as the applications on the remote servers and then provide the access to all the data that is stored
in the storage space using the internet [2]. It denotes that the users are not needed to be in any particular
space for gaining the access to the data storage, permitting the users with working remotely. The cloud
computing executes the major tasks of the collecting and then processing all the data away from
various devices that are being presently used by the users [3]. The internet could be considered as the
cloud and the work, the data and the various application are provided to the users from any of the
devices that could help in connecting with the internet from any part of the world. The cloud computing
is being provided in both the forms such as the private and the public cloud. The public cloud services
offers the services over internet for the appropriate fee. The private cloud services solely offers the
services to the specific number of the people. These kinds of the services are commonly the systems of
the network that provides the hosted services [4]. The cloud computing technology is playing the major
part in the sector of the data backup along with the recovery of the data easily. The cloud backup or the
remote backup or online backup could be considered to be the strategy for transferring the copy of any
physical or any virtual file for any secondary, the off-site location to ensure the preservation for being
prepared for any situation of the failure of any equipment failure or any kind of disaster. This secondary
server as well as the storage system are commonly hosted by any third party service supplier who takes
the appropriate charges for the backup of the customers that is stored in the storage space or even the
used capacity for storing the files [5]. The implementation of the cloud data backup could help with the

bolstering the data protection strategy of any organization deprived of increase in the workload of the
staff employed in the information technology department. This particular labour saving advantage
might be extensively important and adequate of the contemplation to the offset of some of major
additional charges that are linked with the cloud backup, like the charges required for the data
transmission. Majority of the cloud subscriptions executes on the yearly or even the monthly basis [6].
While in the initial stages, the cloud storage was being used by the consumers and the home offices, the
present online service of backup are being deployed in the small and the medium sized enterprises. For
the larger companies, the cloud data backup has the ability of serving as the supplementary kind of the
backup. This research intends to analyse the effectiveness of the cloud computing technology for the
tasks of backup and the recovery of the data of various kinds [7]. Presently the most common method
of backing up the data of the organisations in the cloud storage is the storage directly to any of the
public cloud. This method is being used for storing the resources of the organization by the duplication
of the resources in public cloud easily. This particular method entails the writing of the data directly to
the cloud providers. The organisations then utilizes their respective backup software for creating the
data copy for being sent to the service of the cloud storage [8]. The service of the cloud storage then
offers the particular destination as well as the protection of the data, but it do not particularly provide
the application for any kind backup. In this particular scenario, it has been considered to be significant
that the backup software has the ability of interfacing with the storage of the cloud service. Along with
this, the IT professionals might be needed in looking into the supplemental procedures of the data
protection [9].

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