8/30/2023 0 Comments Cloud backup meaning![]() ![]() Businesses that take on services from the provider that actually hosts their machines can remote log in to them and do their work. Information will be backed up from someone’s computer and go over the internet encrypted to this location where you will be able to recover should the computer blow up. ![]() In most cases the service provider will own or rent space in a secure Data Centre (DC) for this purpose, entry to the DC is extremely secure so no one can just walk in without prior permission. So now we have understood (just) about the terminology, where is the information/machines actually stored. Just to clarify, sometimes online is referred to as Cloud and vice versa. Take it as it says on the tin, Computing from the Cloud, not rocket science but still explains it better when looked at it like that. In businesses some would want their entire or part IT Environment hosted offsite and would refer to this as Cloud Computing and would work from there. Yes, it is the same as data in this case is being backed offsite. The sinister amongst you might think, well isn’t the same for example online backup why refer to as cloud backup. This could be data like office files, or machines like servers to make things more safer should the worst happen to the building for example, fire, flood or earthquake. In simple terms it is storing “stuff” from a business or home user outside of their physical premises. Let’s cut to the chase, no nothing is stored in the Clouds above us, it is just a term now so commonly used it does make the tech savvy of us question even our own insanity and frame of mind. Are things actually kept in the white fluffy specs of smoke you see above or is there really another meaning. Cloud backup, cloud computing, and cloud storage the list goes on and is very confusing. ![]()
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