Storage Industry Group Starts New Cloud Backup-Recovery SIG

By: Chris Preimesberger http://www.eweek.com  2010-07-21

“The Cloud BUR [Back Up and Restore] SIG is a project of SNIA’s Cloud Storage Initiative that promotes the adoption of cloud storage as a delivery model that provides on-demand storage billed only for what is used.

Nobody doubts that there is a lot more education to do in all business markets about the intricacies and attributes of cloud data backup/restore, archiving and disaster recovery.

So an influential industry group, the Storage Networking Industry Association, took it upon itself July 21 to form a new Cloud Backup and Restore Special Interest Group to approach this problem.

The Cloud BUR [Back Up and Restore] SIG is a project of SNIA’s Cloud Storage Initiative that promotes the adoption of cloud storage as a model that provides on-demand storage billed only for what is used. Its main role is to educate the market about Cloud BUR benefits through use cases and to define requirements for future standards.”

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