Once a simple process, performing data backup and recovery is much more complex. Significant volumes of information are generated and transmitted over intricate systems, including the edge, hybrid cloud, IoT (Internet of Things), and multi-cloud. This makes data backup and recovery much more challenging, and the demand for automation and innovation in this field is growing. The following will discuss future features of data backup and recovery solutions.

Multi-Cloud Strategy

Optimizing performance and offering flexibility, a multi-cloud strategy is gaining traction because this approach can mix and match services. Supporting solutions can back up data across multiple cloud services and various providers. Typically, these solutions can transmit backups from a service and then store them on another service for DR (disaster recovery) purposes. 

Utilizing containers and microservices, multi-cloud strategy solutions can deploy data and workloads on several cloud environments without concern about service incompatibilities across services and their proprietary formats. 

This is possible because every container is independent of the host operating system and has all the required dependencies.

This excellent flexibility allows businesses to minimize or eliminate costly downtime in most situations. It is highly improbable that every single cloud provider the company uses will be struck simultaneously by an identical disaster, keeping at least one failover option available.

Hybrid Cloud Backup

Just as with a multi-cloud deployment, a hybrid cloud backup approach offers more control and flexibility to businesses. As a result, this strategy is being implemented by a growing number of companies that either use a solution to either support an existing hybrid cloud system or create one. 

Data is first backed up on-premises, and then the backup is duplicated in the cloud. Backup duplication helps ensure data is readily accessible for business continuity. An organization can also benefit from the cloud’s scalability for its storage needs. In addition, syncing on-premise resources with cloud-generated data is now possible with solutions that permit two-way backups.

Hybrid cloud solutions that enable on-site backups will let your team recover backups fast, eliminating internet connectivity as a factor. In the meantime, cloud storage will allow you to keep older backups for longer, providing avenues for failover or recovery should there be a problem with on-premises backup resources.

Part 2 will cover Cloud-Native Backup and IoT (Internet of Things).

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