The public cloud depends on a network of third-party owned, shared, and remote servers to process, store, and manage data.
The public cloud depends on a network of third-party owned, shared, and remote servers to process, store, and manage data. That is, rather than local storage devices a single customer owns and controls, such as an on-premises data center or office computers. Businesses concerned about securing business secrets, customer data, and compliance information find this concerning.