Natural disasters can lead to long-term downtime for organizations. Natural disasters, earthquakes, hurricanes, snow storms or other events can put data centers and other corporate facilities out of commission. Organizations using more internal and external cloud services, they’re finding that these resources can become part of a disaster recovery strategy. Forrester: Cloud-based DR services offer lower costs yet faster recovery, with easier testing and more flexible contracts. The biggest downside to the cloud from the standpoint of DR is security and privacy management.”]

