SNIA Announces Cloud Backup and Recovery (BUR) Special Interest Group (SIG)

In July, SNIA announced the formation of its Cloud Backup and Recovery Special Interest Group (Cloud BUR SIG), which will further the Cloud BUR industry by educating the marketplace and driving demand for Cloud BUR solutions and services.

The adoption of cloud-based backup and recovery is escalating as organizations benefit from the simplicity, cost and other business advantages of this emerging technology platform. The Cloud BUR SIG will facilitate further growth by defining the requirements for standards and delivering a pipeline of resources to industry participants, including vendors, service providers, and end-users.

Under the umbrella of the SNIA's Cloud Storage Initiative (CSI), which promotes the adoption of cloud storage as a new delivery model, the Cloud BUR SIG will create best practices and conduct surveys to educate the industry through collaboration with end users, the channel, analysts and cloud BUR vendors.

For more information on SNIA's Cloud Storage activities, please visit www.snia.org/cloud or get involved in the conversation at www.twitter.com/SNIACloud and http://groups.google.com/group/cloudstorage.