04 June 2021 SMB's need an effective cloud-based disaster recovery strategy that accounts for their mass shift to digitization. Here are three reasons why. (Image credit: Image Credit: Dotshock / Shutterstock) If the Covid-19 pandemic has taught us anything, it’s the importance of cloud-based disaster recovery and business continuity planning. Indeed, when local and state governments announced stay at home orders in the spring of 2020, migration to the cloud accelerated dramatically as IT teams scrambled to ensure employees could connect and collaborate remotely, as well as access mission-critical company data from their new home offices. It was a move that especially impacted small and midsize businesses across America, with Flexera’s 2020 State of the Cloud report predicting that 70 percent of SMB workloads and data would reside in the public cloud by the end of the year. And with a separate study from Analysys Mason finding that more than a quarter of SMBs in the U.S. plan to increase their use of cloud infrastructure once Covid restrictions have been relaxed, the criticality of a cloud-based disaster recovery strategy has catapulted.