Bangalore: IT professionals mostly look upon their virtualization projects for internal cloud infrastructure. Still virtualization projects can benefit from the public clouds that they are providing. A public cloud can always act as an off-site backup storage space for enterprises, especially SMBS, helping them to shift their data to the cloud space at times of disaster or any cases of outage.

So with that in mind let’s look at some of the possibilities where the cloud can complement a virtualization platform, as compiled by information week.com.

#1 Public cloud as off-site backup:

The backup technique is one of the earliest and most used cloud practices. Initially the cloud was used as backup measure for laptops and desktops, but now things have changed. Today cloud is being used as an ideal storage for physical structures like databases and servers. Even people have started believing the myth, ‘the farther your data stays, the better protected it is from a regional disaster.

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