disaster recovery

Is Cloud an "Enabler" or "Dis-abler" for Disaster Recovery?

Is Cloud an "Enabler" or "Dis-abler" for Disaster Recovery?

While most people working for cloud providers (I used to work at one) will tell you that Disaster Recovery is a great use case for cloud, our panelists weren't so sure. The feeling in the room is that utilizing cloud environment in addition to traditional on premise environments created a bunch of operational complexity and it was safer to keep both production and DR in-house.