Many still believe that housing data on a physical desktop is safer — but the opposite is true. When using the cloud, your information is securely stored in data centers, managed by service providers who implement advanced security protection at a level which would be extremely complex and expensive for businesses to emulate on premise. The cloud also offers data redundancy, because ultimately, information is stored in multiple locations, allowing for natural disasters or other issues that may disrupt one physical server site.
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