Managed Backup: The ROI Behind The Strategy

The issues of business continuity and information availability have never been more critical for business and IT executives as they make investment decisions. They must deal with an expanding set of business-critical applications, a shrinking window for acceptable time to application recovery, and a heightened awareness of the costs associated with lost or corrupted data.

Effective collection and use of information are key requirements for organizations in today's challenging business environment. With the right information, delivered at the right time and in the right place, companies can better manage costs, make smarter decisions, and react quicker to changing conditions.

When making IT investment decisions, executives need to judge offerings based on three business requirements. Does the proposed investment:

•  Help reduce or control increases in the cost of doing business (deliver a strong ROI)?
•  Ensure the integrity of the business in the face of system and site level failures (enable more effective disaster recovery)?
•  Support increasingly diverse information management requirements (deliver capabilities that work across a growing range of applications, information types, and data retention requirements)?

Improving recovery and data availability standards through more extensive and frequent backups can often prove impractical or overly expensive. The need to operate 24 x 7 means that backup windows are dramatically shrinking while the data to be backed up is rapidly growing. Simply throwing more of the same resources at the issue is financially and technically unfeasible.

In this brave new world, IT organizations must invest in solutions that allow them to consolidate and automate data protection and recovery processes across the entire organization. IT executives must lower costs and improve manageability for local recovery while also leveraging data replication for backup across remote location to boost overall application continuity and enterprise wide DR. The natural solution for this is managed backup, which automates the diverse backup and DR needs of an enterprise network seamlessly and securely.

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