The Top 3 Features You Need in a Backup and Recovery Solution for a Successful Digital Transformation Journey

Hardware failure, software corruption, theft, ransomware, natural disaster, the list goes on. These are some of the factors that can put corporate data and workloads at serious risk. Whatever the cause, untoward incidents will leave you vulnerable to losing important data entirely and facing considerable downtime, if not a complete stoppage of operations.

With growing customer expectations and availability requirements becoming increasingly stringent, it has become a necessity for businesses to have a reliable backup and recovery solution that enables them to bounce back as fast as possible after any unplanned—and unwanted—incident.

With the importance of having a backup and recovery solution well established already, the need for a reliable solution must also be emphasised. That means you need to make sure that the solution you are getting will truly help you not only in times of need but also in support of your organisation’s overall digital transformation journey and growth. To ensure all that, look for a backup and recovery solution that offers the following features:

1. Easy to onboard, configure and manage. Let’s face it, with every new technology advancement that your organisation takes on, such as the cloud, AI, containerisation and IoT, your IT environment as a whole will only grow and become more complex over time. However, protecting it shouldn’t be. In other words, your backup and recovery solution has to remain as simple as possible, especially if you need to restore your data and workloads in a timely manner when the time arises.
2. Provides seamless scalability. Being scalable means having the capability to support the growth of your business—and the additional data and workloads that come with it. Your backup and recovery solution must account for that eventuality so that both you and your solution can grow together.
3. Comes with strong backup capabilities, with built-in ransomware protection. These days, a reliable backup and recovery solution must offer robust protection against ransomware attacks. This is necessary not only because ransomware has become the attack of choice for cybercriminals, and can compromise a business in the worst of ways. More importantly, ransomware attacks have become highly sophisticated, and many are now aimed at targeting your organisation’s last line of defence – which is its backup.

With the rapid digitalisation of the business landscape across all industries, having a simple, scalable and reliable backup and recovery solution has become an absolute necessity. And organisations can get this kind of backup and recovery reliability as part of intelligent data services that encompass a range of data-related solutions.  Among other things, intelligent data services will help you unlock the potential of data to accelerate your business—and, at the same time, ensure consistent data recoverability across your IT environment. The latter’s capability is particularly critical given the multitude of failure points and growing frequency of cyber attacks that can lead to data loss.

Intelligent data services, however beneficial, should ideally be offered via flexible delivery models to take into account the size of organisations and their financial capacity, their varied data needs and the potential for scaling in the future.  This means giving organisations a variety of choices, like signing up for subscription-based service, opting for an integrated appliance for turnkey deployment, leveraging a data partner or choosing a SaaS offering.  With this flexibility, organisations can choose the right model based on their needs and preferences—and then adjust accordingly should these needs and preferences change over time.

These Intelligent Data Services are offered by Commvault—and via flexible delivery models. Commvault’s Intelligent Data Services provide real solutions to an organisation’s data needs, including data management and protection and backup and data recovery.  And, together with Metallic, Commvault also enables seamless extensions to cloud-delivered services, all while managing everything through a single user experience—the Commvault Command Centre™. Put simply, Commvault combines simplicity, scalability, and capability in one encompassing package.

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