{"id":33803,"date":"2018-03-15T20:52:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T20:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=f73744d4c6af8a57ce21c9c315082502"},"modified":"2018-03-15T20:52:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T20:52:08","slug":"uk-companies-unprepared-for-cloud-outages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/uk-companies-unprepared-for-cloud-outages\/","title":{"rendered":"UK companies unprepared for cloud outages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field-name-field-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"field-item even\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudpro.co.uk\/authors\/clare-hopping\">Clare Hopping<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">16 Mar, 2018<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"short-teaser\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudpro.co.uk\/\" title=\"\" class=\"combined-link\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body\">\n<p> More than three quarters of businesses have not fully analysed the financial cost of a cloud outage, meaning they&#8217;re putting their business&#8217;s security at risk.<\/p>\n<p>A survey by Veritas has revealed that a third of organisations only anticipate their services to go down for less than 15 minutes a month, yet figures show the average outage lasts 16 minutes per month.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the majority of the 1200 business and IT decision makers saying they expect to move systems to the cloud in the next 12 to 24-months, two-thirds think keeping on top of outages is the responsibility of their cloud provider. More than three quarters think it&#8217;s the cloud provider&#8217;s job to protect workloads.<\/p>\n<p>However, what they don&#8217;t consider is that the majority of SLAs only protect the infrastructure layer and they are not responsible for ensuring applications come back online when service is restored or data recovery.<\/p>\n<p>If businesses aren&#8217;t prepared to take on some of the load when a cloud service is knocked offline, it could have pricey consequences for the organisation, unless the firm has an on-premise failover strategy in place, to backup apps and data, should a cloud service suffer an outage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrganisations are clearly lacking in understanding the anatomy of a cloud outage and that recovery is a joint responsibility between the cloud service provider and the business,\u201d Mike Palmer, executive vice president and chief product officer, Veritas said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImmediate recovery from a cloud outage is absolutely within an organization\u2019s control and responsibility to perform if they take a proactive stance to application uptime in the cloud. Getting this right means less downtime, financial impact, loss of customers\u2019 trust and damage to brand reputation.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>      Clare Hopping<\/p>\n<p>        16 Mar, 2018    <\/p>\n<p>       More than three quarters of businesses have not fully analysed the financial cost of a cloud outage, meaning they&#8217;re putting their business&#8217;s security at risk.<br \/>\nA survey by Veritas has revealed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33804,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33803\/revisions\/33804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}