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Multi cloud backup and recovery best practices

As organisations move more data into multiple clouds, user concerns about data availability and safety continue to grow. And despite being in the early phases of the multi-cloud movement, experts have provided some good guidelines to users to help them implement this additional layer of protection. This guide details multi-cloud backup and recovery best practices, and presents potential pain points.

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