Enabling consumers to protect cloud-hosted application data by moving it to a separate cloud requires an operational solution that consistently and reliably executes the data transfer without depending on manual, ad hoc effort, which is precisely what implementing automatic backup processes achieves: scheduled or event-triggered jobs that systematically copy application data from the source cloud environment to a distinct target cloud, providing the cloud-to-cloud protection consumers need. Automating this process is what makes the protection dependable and repeatable at scale, which is the practical solution being asked for. Verifying data in the original cloud (A) is a validation or integrity-checking activity that confirms the source data's state, but it does not itself move any data to another cloud or constitute a backup solution. Keeping track of data updates (C) describes a form of change monitoring or auditing, useful for understanding what has changed, but tracking changes alone does not create or maintain a protected copy in a separate cloud environment. Analyzing backup schedules regularly (D) is a review and optimization activity performed on an already-existing backup process, not the implementation of the backup capability itself. Among the given options, initiating automatic backup processes is the correct, actionable solution.

Reference topic: Cloud-based Data Protection - Cloud-to-Cloud Backup.