INTELLIGENT CLOUD
Cloud service
providers must
embrace availability
Many of the big-ticket
breaches could have been
avoided if data backup
provisions using cloud
service providers were more
robust, explains Mohamad
Rizk at Veeam.
A
t the back end of 2017, every
publication or news outlet
with an interest in technology
published their biggest and best of lists.
Included were things like innovations,
software solutions and games. As well, of
course, as hacks.
This year’s biggest breach articles were
an unfortunate roll call of technology
giants and prominent cloud providers,
from IBM and Apple, to GitLab and AWS.
CNN termed 2017 the year that nothing
seemed safe, as it explored how businesses
and public sector organisations alike were
let down by security failings. While Uber,
understanding the public scrutiny that
cyberattacks attract, tried to pay off its
hackers, only to cause further problems.
The growing issue for tech firms
is that most of these lists and round-
ups go beyond discussing financial
losses that reach into the hundreds of
millions. They also readily showcase
the potential fallibilities of cloud. And
how vulnerabilities in cloud services and
businesses can disturb the working lives of
customers across the world.
Every single time a cloud outage
happens, end users are let down, service
is disrupted and reputations are damaged.
So as cloud changes and becomes an
integral part of the ecosystem of every
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