One of the key scenarios that you can leverage the cloud for is backup and that is what we are going to take a look in this post. Backup is something that should be doing everyday in your datacenter. Regardless of the size of your datacenter, you backup your data. You can backup your data to a variety of locations and media. Are you prepared if you lose your backup volumes or misplace the tape or if disaster strikes?
You can now include the cloud into your thought process as a storage destination for your data. It is secure and easy scenario to dip your toe into using the cloud. The cloud backups instantly provide you a disaster recovery environment and a great place to store your data. These tools provide you automated backups that are offsite.
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