Your company can successfully overcome operational challenges during the transition to modern data management by keeping in mind the key requirements for implementing backup and recovery solutions. The following will discuss five recommendations for your company’s backup and recovery strategy.

Simplify Through Hyperconverged Architecture

Legacy backup solutions can be overly complex and will require upgrades that are disruptive and costly. Featuring various user interfaces and isolated operations, multiple point solutions prevent a unified view of backup infrastructure and data management in the cloud, at the edge, or on your premises.

A hyper-converged backup and recovery approach can consolidate and upgrade the capabilities of your point products into a single and easily manageable platform. Consult with a managed services provider (MSP) about implementing a versatile solution that is simple to operate while allowing scalability.

Use Cloud-native Solution to Streamline Operations

Now commonly used, the hybrid cloud approach develops and utilizes production applications in public clouds and on-premises. However, when IT teams archive enterprise data in a public cloud, they typically realize their legacy backup solutions are inadequate. In contrast, modern, cloud-native solutions, such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, securely back up and protect data while providing scalability and cost savings. Seek a solution featuring a native S3 interface with global deduplication technology across the cloud for top-of-the-line storage efficiency.

Ensure Business Continuity via Instant Recovery

Due to today’s complex IT environments, it is reasonable to expect occasional downtime. However, worldwide business runs 24/7, and extended periods of downtime can negatively impact your company’s revenue and reputation.

Legacy backup software and even some newer solutions are only capable of recovering a handful of virtual machines (VMs) simultaneously. This is because they must carry out the complex task of reassembling deduped data (rehydration) across several backup copies prior to the presentation of data for recovery. In addition, mass data fragmentation resulting from data in several locations, along with using legacy systems, can further slow recovery.

Modern backup solutions can recover hundreds of VMs or data sets within minutes, rather than hours or days. Seek a solution that will maintain fully hydrated backup copies in an unlimited number, provides global searches across multiple locations and workloads and can execute instant mass recovery.

Part 2 will discuss three more recommendations for your backup and recovery strategy.

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