Cloud backup involves backing up data to a service provider's data center over a wide area network using standard internet protocols. It offers scalable, ubiquitous access to storage that is shared, secure, and inexpensive compared to local backup solutions. Cloud backup is suitable for both individual consumers and large organizations and provides different service levels based on requirements.

1. What is Cloud Backup?Photo Credit: Flickr User: vsz

2. What is Cloud Backup?Cloud Backup and Recovery (BUR) can be realized in the following two ways:

3. By outsourcing data backup to a Managed Service Provider (MSP) – Public Cloud Backup.

4. By backing up data to an internal cloud – Private Cloud Backup.

5. For simplicity, this presentation will focus on Public Cloud Backup.Photo Credit: Flickr User: vsz

6. What is Cloud Backup?At the most basic level, Cloud Backup involves the backing up of ones data into a service provider’s data center, over a Wide Area Network, using standard internet protocols.Cloud Backup?The main premise of cloud backup is that the hardware infrastructure is shared, thereby increasing efficiencies and reducing costs.

7. Think of Cloud Backup as having an unlimited amount of storage that’s highly available, secure and inexpensive.Photo Credit: Flickr User: Corey Leopold

8. Who should use Cloud Backup?Anyone from a regular consumer to multi-billion dollar corporations.

9. While the basic premise of cloud backup remains the same, different types of service levels are provided to different people/organizations based on requirements.Photo Credit: Flickr User: Daniela Bartosova

10. Digging Deeper.A Cloud Backup Solution is characterized by the following attributes: Service Based

11. Ubiquitous Access

12. Scalable & Elastic

13. Metered by Use

14. Shared & SecurePhoto Credit: Flickr User: CreativeCommons