Modernizing your data protection strategy is now more complex than just reviewing your existing backup software and deciding whether to replace it. Sleeper ransomware can infect your backups, the accounts used for backup can be compromised, and there are new features that can simplify failback after a disaster. Deciding which of the new features being offered by vendors are appropriate to your needs, whether they intersect with existing data protection tools, and which vendor is best for you will need research.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Understanding your risk profile and consequential feature requirements will be very beneficial in the creation of your data protection strategy. The new features being offered by backup vendors should be seen as additional tools in your data protection armory rather than replacements for existing tools such as endpoint protection or effective security practices.
- Review your data protection strategy holistically, investigating which of these features you need in your environment and determining whether your existing tools may suffice.
- Decide how, if adopted, the new features may fortify or modernize your current data protection plans and then review vendor offerings.
Impact and Result
- Cybersecurity issues are an increasingly huge risk to data and IT environments worldwide. This places stress not only on IT staff, pressuring them to enhance their data protection solutions, but also on business owners concerned about their revenue stream.
- The new features work to mitigate that risk, but some tools also enable an environment to failover much more efficiently in the event of a disaster, and new cloud backup features provide enhanced confidence in the protection of offsite data. In general, the tasks that can now be performed are not only enhanced but also expanded.
Member Testimonials
After each Info-Tech experience, we ask our members to quantify the real-time savings, monetary impact, and project improvements our research helped them achieve. See our top member experiences for this blueprint and what our clients have to say.
10.0/10
Overall Impact
$26,500
Average $ Saved
60
Average Days Saved
Client
Experience
Impact
$ Saved
Days Saved
Corporation Of The City Of Orillia
Guided Implementation
10/10
$50,000
115
Troy was very very patient with the Team. He has so much valuable expert knowledge but never talked down. He went above and beyond actually doing t... Read More
Corporation Of The City Of Orillia
Guided Implementation
10/10
$3,000
5
Best was emphasis on the non technical and basics. no worst. Estimating time saved by having Infotech involved to streamline and blast through