Data Protection and Recovery - Overview

Data Protection and Recovery covers the processes and tools that IT can use to backup, store, and restore information and applications. As information stores proliferate, organizations are under increasing pressure to protect that information and provide cost-effective and time-efficient recovery when required.

"81% of 484 companies surveyed reported losing one or more laptop computers containing sensitive or confidential business information in the past 12-months." - Ponemon Institute Study, 2008

Optimization for Data Protection and Recovery helps you to protect documents, increase security, and minimize downtime. The result? Increased productivity throughout your organization.

The four levels of optimization for Data Protection and Recovery can take your organization from Basic, in which the infrastructure has no disaster recovery or back-up plan, to Dynamic, in which continuous data protection guarantees business continuity and high availability.

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Basic

Organizations at a basic level for Data Protection and Recovery have no standard data-management policies and islands of user data exist around the network in file shares, non-standard servers, personal profiles, Web sites, and local computers. Little of this information is backed up. Any data backup that does occur happens locally and there is no backup and restore process for most critical servers. A lack of archiving and backup services makes regulatory compliance difficult. Corporate data in applications and critical systems is at risk of loss due to the lack of a disaster-recovery plan. These organizations have no user-state migration available to ensure that new technology deployments are smooth and error-free. Their data recovery processes are untested.

Standardized

At a standardized level, organizations have backup and restore processes for critical servers, though the unreliability of tape-based backups and slow data transfers are still issues. User and application-data management is not centralized. Standards have been set for local storage in users’ My Documents folders, but information is not redirected or backed up. Any backup of user data occurs at the workgroup level only. There is some automation of user-state migration available for technology deployments. Recovery processes for mission-critical applications have been tested.

Rationalized

At this level, organizations have backup and restore processes for some servers through virtualization—and for all servers with SLAs. Recovery processes for both mission-critical applications and data have been tested. Information is backed up onto tape which is local area network (LAN)–based and is managed at the company level. During backups, there might be a dip in LAN and server performance. User states are preserved and restored for technology deployments. These organizations are not yet meeting all industry regulatory-compliance requirements.

Dynamic

Continuous data protection guarantees business continuity and high availability by restoring access to information and systems in minutes with failover capabilities. Dynamic IT organizations have backup and restore processes for all servers with SLAs and desktop data. At this level, comprehensive regulatory compliance becomes possible. Business-continuity services are implemented, including data classification and policy definition.

Data Protection and Recovery Related Products

Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V
System Center Data Protection Manager 2007
SQL Server
Windows Vista with BitLocker

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