Cloud Backup: Monitoring

Cloud Backup Series

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Cloud Backup: Monitoring

Trust is the single biggest issue raised by consumers of cloud-based services. Monitoring is incredibly important as one way of helping establish trust. The tools and mechanisms that a vendor provides for monitoring are the backbone for establishing this trust.

It’s important that vendors provide clear monitoring tools that can be accessed locally and remotely that enable the historical and real-time monitoring of the cloud-based disaster recovery service. You want your cloud-based disaster recovery service and your on-premise appliance to offer a single integrated view.

I tend to favor dashboard approaches with relatively simple red/yellow/green statuses (failure/warning/success) that may be used in an intuitive fashion to drill-down into successive levels of detail.