If you are interested in this topic, you are most likely looking to fix the limitations, or enhance the capabilities, of what I call Invisible Applications. These are applications most people in an organization sometimes won't even know about the existence of until a disaster strikes, and at other times would be taken for granted.
I am talking about the following, well-known services:
- Backup and disaster recovery
- File sharing
As you can see, these are mainly storage related services, and so before we go on to see how the capability of these can be augmented and enhanced using the public cloud, let's take a look at the traditional way of performing these actions.