Cloud backup options gain credibility slowly but surely

Despite the demise of several public cloud storage service offerings in the past year, solution providers say cloud-based backup and storage solutions are finding a following among their smaller business clientele.

There are two reasons. First, virtualization advances have improved backup and disaster recovery options. Second, there is strong desire among small businesses to simplify data management. It turns out that the reason many small businesses shunned backup solutions in the past wasn’t necessarily because such solutions weren’t relevant. It was because few small businesses have the wherewithal to deal with shuffling tapes and other storage media.

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