Most cloud subscriptions run on a monthly or yearly basis. The labor-saving benefit can be significant and enough of a consideration to offset some of the additional costs associated with cloud backup, such as data transmission charges. Implementing cloud data backup can help bolster an organization's data protection, business continuance and regulatory compliance strategies without increasing the workload of IT staff. The backup server and data storage systems are usually hosted by a third-party cloud or SaaS provider that charges the backup customer a recurring fee based on storage space or capacity used, data transmission bandwidth, number of users, number of servers or number of times data is retrieved.

Bigelow, Senior Technology EditorĬloud backup, also known as online backup or remote backup, is a strategy for sending a copy of a physical or virtual file or database to a secondary, off-site location for preservation in case of equipment failure, site catastrophe or human malfeasance.

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