The Cloud Apps Data Protection Handbook
Cloud-based applications have become critical to businesses and operations around the globe. But do leading Software as a Service (SaaS) providers such as Box, Microsoft, Google, and Salesforce protect their customers’ data with equally critical backup options?
And can they recover deleted data when needed, or is it just lost? Asking why you would want additional protection for data that’s already in the cloud is becoming a standard practice.
It turns out that cloud application providers may only offer some limited levels of retention and recovery, which are primarily in place just to ensure data accessibility and save themselves and their clients from only certain types of data loss.