Private cloud (also known as enterprise cloud) is cloud computing that is dedicated and accessible to a single organization, creating greater control, security and privacy while providing the agility, scalability and self-service of a public cloud. With a private cloud, an organization (or MSP) is responsible for the cost and building, managing and maintaining the IT infrastructure required to support the private cloud. While the private cloud is often single-user, some private cloud platforms offer a multi-user architecture (multi-tenant architecture) that allows each tenant (group, department or office) to share its server space, while each tenant's data remains inaccessible to everyone else.


Public cloud is cloud computing that uses an independent third-party provider such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure to host, manage and maintain the storage of your data in a multi-tenant environment that shares resources with other clients in the cloud. By pooling resources, the public cloud can offer affordable, pay-as-you-go online data storage that is easily scalable to meet your business needs. One aspect to consider with the public cloud is security, reliability and regulatory compliance.

Hybrid cloud is cloud computing that utilizes both private and public cloud services, with a management platform that spans these environments so that data and applications can be shared between them.


NovaStor offers backup software that supports cloud architectures for public, private and hybrid cloud backups. Our cloud backup solutions enable any large organization to centrally manage and backup distributed workstations, servers and virtual environments.

Yes, NovaStor's data backup solution encrypts all backup data on the way from source to destination. NovaStor DataCenter uses 256-bit AES end-to-end encryption. 

Such encryption is essential for remote or cloud backup. Many companies have a local backup and a second location, e.g. a second data center or a private, public or hybrid cloud, to which they want to back up. We support Transport Layer Security (TLS) in versions 1.2 and 1.3.

With NovaStor DataCenter, end-to-end encryption takes place from the UI to the storage: this means that your data is encrypted from the moment you open the GUI to the moment your backup data reaches the target storage. The performance overhead is minimal.