#2 Public Clouds As Disaster Recovery Site:

The latest trend across the larger enterprise segment is that data protection suppliers and cloud providers are beginning to leverage virtual machine images in the cloud to provide disaster recovery in their facility. This capability is a pretty good option for SMBs, who are in short of a secondary team to manage the disaster recovery processes. This technique also makes the cloud providers happy as they can be credited as provider of full service rather than a storage place within the internet world.

#3 Public clouds as bursting option:

And the latest advantage in using the cloud is to use it as a bursting option. Apart from the normal backup and disaster recovery methods, cloud services can also be used as a target point for applications when peak loads hit the system. This cloud bursting technique helps enterprises to run additional applications within the system or even can shift a less important application to the cloud, simply to accommodate its peak load.

The only problem enterprise faces in cloud bursting is the complexity of the process. As to shift whole virtualization environment from the company to the cloud is pretty complex and expensive.  But today there are companies who can act as a bridge between these two factors and help enterprises secure their data centers and servers from over load and outages.

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