Government Technology

Protecting Government and Citizen Data

Forty-five percent of respondents to a Center for Digital Government survey are currently assessing storage on demand/storage in the cloud. Cloud backup and recovery shares many of the general benefits of cloud computing. It is cost-effective, secure and reliable, and provides anywhere, anytime access to information. This issue brief discusses the benefits of cloud-based backup and recovery solutions in more detail, reviews the cloud backup and recovery process, and offers a few best practices for implementing a cloud backup and recovery solution.