Evolution of Backup and Disaster Recovery Solutions in Cloud Computing: Trends, Challenges, and Future Directions
Ali Asghar Mehdi Syed, Shujat Ali · Journal of recent trends in computer science and engineering. · 2021
The rise of cloud computing has fundamentally changed backup & disaster recovery (BDR) solutions.Historically, businesses relied on expensive, complicated & prone to failure on-site backup solutions.With scalable, reasonably priced & strong solutions offered by cloud-based BDR, data security has changed.Companies now depend on the cloud solutions to provide quick recovery from disruptions, data redundancy & the great availability.Growing usage of hybrid & multi-cloud systems has improved BDR capabilities, thus allowing businesses to maximize the compliance, performance & the cost control requirements.Still, this development has challenges.Important issues include security concerns, data sovereignty regulations, latency issues & the complexity of keeping distributed backups must be managed by companies.Rising risk of ransomware attacks calls for companies to use advanced BDR strategies like automation, AI-driven threat detection & the immutable backups.Rising trends point to BDR systems using AI and ML more and more for predictive analytics, automated recovery & the enhanced security.Perfect interaction with edge computing, blockchain for data integrity & zero-trust architectures to provide robust security is expected to define cloud-based BDR going forward.Companies have to be proactive by using flexible & strong business disaster recovery strategies to safeguard their digital assets as cloud computing develops.The evolution of cloud-based BDR, important market trends, main challenges & the future paths influencing the next generation of disaster recovery systems is investigated in this paper.