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Cloud storage backup options

Cloud storage backup options

- [Instructor] Cloud storage is becoming a popular place to send our backups. We can do cloud storage at places such as Microsoft's Azure, Amazon Web Services, also known as AWS, and other third-party sites that are out there. However, Azure and Amazon Web Services do make up the majority of all the cloud storage. You can also choose a remote office or data center. So if you have your own devices, such as servers or storage area network devices, you can place them in another office and do a site-to-site tunnel. Or even a data center, and the data center would be considered a private cloud. There are some advantages to using cloud services, such as no onsite hardware. Obviously, this wouldn't be the case of a private cloud, but if you use a public cloud, like AWS or Azure, then that would be the case. And it works with many different backup programs. So for instance, you can use Veeam and Backup Exec and other programs and…

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