This document discusses disaster recovery and the use of cloud computing for disaster recovery. It begins by outlining the need for effective disaster recovery, noting that downtime from disasters cost over $41 billion in 2009 and that improving disaster recovery capabilities is a high priority for most enterprises. It then provides an overview of cloud computing characteristics like scalability, elasticity, and multi-tenancy. The document proposes that virtualizing disaster recovery can bridge the gap between traditional backup approaches that are slow, and duplicating all infrastructure which is costly. It presents the NetGains disaster recovery offerings that use virtualization and replication to enable workloads to be recovered in the cloud quickly and easily during a disaster.