Disaster recovery and the cloud: the perfect match?

Call it what you will, disaster recovery, at-a-distance-failover planning or simply data backup and business continuity, the truth is that you simply cannot afford to be without it. The question that needs to be addressed, and is in danger of being overlooked when bean-counters are blinded by the bottom line cost of cloud solutions, is just how much of a risk is inherent in moving DR into the cloud?