So what does this have to do with cloud backup? Well, as mentioned in my post the other day, there is a lot of venture capital money flowing into cloud-related ventures in general and cloud-related backup ventures in particular. The most famous examples of SaaS are and Google’s Gmail. And then there’s SaaS, or Software as a Service, which is basically applications hosted and made available over the Internet. The most famous PaaS’s are ’s, Google’s AppEngine, and Microsoft’s Azure. PaaS stands for Platform as a Service and provides software developers the ability to build new applications or extend existing ones.

Amazon’s AWS is the most famous IaaS example although Microsoft Azure is coming on strong. As a brief reminder, IaaS stands for Infrastructure as a Service and provides data center, infrastructure hardware, and infrastructure software over the Internet.

I get asked a lot these days about cloud backup, private clouds, and public clouds (in particular, AWS and Azure.) Makes sense, right? Cloud, particularly IaaS is growing like a weed.

Aws for personal backup