Cloud computing is a better platform for business continuity and disaster recovery for several reasons: 1) It provides flexibility and scalability, allowing organizations to easily adjust resources in response to disasters or failures. 2) Using cloud computing reduces costs compared to maintaining physical infrastructure, as capital expenditures turn into operational expenditures. 3) Cloud computing enables remote access and monitoring of systems, allowing disaster recovery plans to be managed from any location.

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Is cloud computing a better platform or Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Cloud computing refers to the act of delivering resources in the form of hardware and
software through the internet. Information communication technology is a fact that
incorporates cloud computing in the world. The existence of internet and computers has
forced many organizations to involve close-ranged management of disasters by use of cloud
computing appliances. Use of computing resources enables managers to carry out managerial
activities with effectiveness, efficiency, and over a formidable avenue of operation. In many
cases, cloud computing has remained to be the only feature that serves to better lives and
existence of computer applications in the world (Antonopoulos & Gillam, 2010).
My main position
Cloud computing is a better platform for business continuity and disaster recovery.
Disaster management and recovery involves many facets instilled within cloud computing in
the world.
Outline
Good business continuity involves the use of the modern facilities and technologies in
the world. Cloud computing is one of these methods. Every field of human integration is
turning to involve information technology and other computer-related facets in management
and continuity. Continuity is achieved when readily available, effective, and efficient modes
of operation are involved. Therefore, disaster management can be exemplified well with the
use of cloud computing approaches and technologies. Disaster recovery plans needs
approaches that will prove dominance and sustainability in the market. Regularity of change
in the applications compromises the existence and use of these facilities within business.

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Therefore, cloud computing is technological, effective, and efficient way of promoting
business continuity and disaster recovery plans in the world (Lewinsky, 2011).
There are several benefits accrued to business continuity and disaster recovery plans
in the business organizations. Cloud computing involves technological approaches, most of
which are effective and newly introduced in the market. These approaches are effective,
efficient, and up to the expectations of a changing market. With the use of cloud computing
in the business world, continuity will be assured to disaster managers and those who deal
with disaster recovery (Krutz & Vines, 2010).
Technical, economic, and managerial implications of applying cloud computing for business
continuity plans and disaster recovery
Cloud computing is technological in nature; it makes use of technological facets like
computer applications and internet. very business concerned with cloud computing is taking
shape in the market together with the evolution of technology in the world. With the urgency
of information communication in the world, cloud computing has established a formidable
ground in the market, and hence exists as a coagulated way of managing business strategies,
activities, and recovery measures like disaster recovery and business continuity. Cloud
computing makes use of software and hardware applications. These materials channel
technology from their sources to places of use. The entire idea of cloud computing is based
on virtualization. Different technological approaches are involved in disaster recovery. The
entire idea involves operation systems, applications, virtual savers, and patches. These are
just a few of the technological applications involved while working on the technical parts of
the system.
Cloud computing is cost effective. The interaction of various parts of systems and
technological applications cuts on the costs of involving separate and many applications

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within a system. Cloud computing involves software applications that take place where
humanitarian resources could have worked. Therefore, it is with cloud computing that
different resources are integrated together to create an effective, efficient, time saving, and
less expensive system of operation. This operation is achieved through the use of the internet
and its related applications (Antonopoulos & Gillam, 2010).
Cloud computing has come as a managerial facet used by many managers while
running their businesses and other operations globally. The managerial aspects of cloud
computing are realized from its technical applications that are integrated and linked to
different sources of information. Use of cloud computing is replicated while applying issues
like marketing in the bazaar. Managers are able to access every activity-taking place in the
market in order to ascertain their performances. In most cases, managerial aspects within a
business organization, like disaster recovery measures, are managed well with the use of
cloud computing applications (NIST, 2011).
Does cloud computing provide the main elements needed for a good BCP and at what cost?
Cloud computing provides the best and main elements needed for a good BCP and
DR. With cloud computing, it becomes easy and cheap to have a correlation between
computers and what takes place in the world. For instance, it is less imperative to have
disasters without relating them to the mechanisms of production and operation in the market.
BCP and DR concepts need applications that are based on online or continued facets. For
instance, virtualization is part of the approaches used to make BCP and DR successful in the
market. Without their applications, these facets would not be of any importance in the
market. The market requires facilities and tools of operation that are linked directly to the
internet and computer applications (Williams, 2012). The software and hardware materials
incorporated in BCP and DR are linked directly with production efficiencies and

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effectiveness. For instance, cloud computing uses virtualized applications that are made real
with computations, and are linked to the entire world by use of computers and computer
applications. Internet services provided are crucial to making the entire process of cloud
computing and the activities of BCP and DR possible in the world. Cloud computing is of
medium price when used together with BCP and DR.
Advantages
Cloud computing provides a cheap and palatable avenue to explore the world. When
used within an organization, it provides an agile ground over which users can restructure their
infrastructure resources. The applications are designed to structure resources in a way that
they will deliver qualitative products and services to the organization. The cost of production
within a public cloud delivery is reduced. The capital expenditure that is often more
expensive is reduced to operational expenditure. Entirely, the cost is reduced with increased
productivity. With the use of the web browsers, users are able to access different information
and facets wherever they are. The location of the device can be in any place while the daily
activities within an organization are maintained. For instance, disaster occurrence can be
managed from a central point without jeopardizing on the occurrence of purposive mistakes
in production (Halpert, 2011).
Performance monitoring is made possible by the use of cloud computing. This
application makes it possible to have monitoring departments that ensure a smooth running of
the gadgets and flow of information within a system. The application is reliable. When used
within a business continuity approach, improvements are done when failures and weaknesses
are annotated. Disaster recovery is managed well when this idea is used within an
organization. Moreover, cloud computing is scalable and elastic. Flexibility is realized when
dealing with situations that require a change of ideas and applications. When disasters are

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recovered, it is possible to have situations where possible disasters are reduced before they
get escalated. Moreover, security is more improved when computations re used instead of
physical applications (Jamsa, 2013).
Disadvantages
The possible disadvantages are directed at the general management of the system.
Cloud computing is widely applicable in the world. Its applications are prone to attacks from
outside sources. For instance, users will always find it difficult to appreciate the need of
having a well-equipped software without mistakes. The complexity of the system warrants
regular monitoring, failure to which has always resulted in loss of crucial information within
an organization. In most cases, monitoring and management should be directed at having an
equitable management personnel that derive every directive within an organization. The
advantages of applying cloud computing in BCP and DR are more applicable and reactive
than their disadvantages (Velte & Elsenpeter 2010).
Reasons against my position
It is hard to ascertain the problems or difficulties associated with the use of cloud
computing in the world. Its positives are reflected more than the negatives. Therefore, cloud
computing offers a formidable ground over which business continuity and disaster recovery
are managed. The only issue of influence touches on the effectiveness of cloud computing in
the society since not all parts of the world are accessible to gadgets and appliances of cloud
computing. Not all businesses are accessible to gadgets, hardware and software incorporated
in cloud computing (Buyya & Gościński, 2011). Therefore, use of cloud computing in BCP
and DR does not amount to equitable use in the world. Possible counterarguments can be
made on this note (Wood et, al, 2010).

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Reasons for my position
Cloud computing is a new and technological application that can be used to ascertain
fruitful and manageable business continuity and disaster management. The applications of
cloud computing are based on technological approaches, most of which involve computer
applications and internet services. The hardware and software devices involved with this
application are susceptive to global changes that are taking place currently. Cloud computing
is economical, technological and improves on management details accrued towards an
organization. Moreover, security management is a critical facet in any project or business
application. Cloud computing is sufficient to improve on this facet, and hence improves on
business continuity and disaster recovery within an organization (Furht, 2010).

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