A perfect storm of disappearing back-up windows (thanks to enormous data growth and nonstop business operations), large-scale catastrophes, increased litigation requiring electronic data discovery and federal regulations governing data retention, has catapulted backup and recovery to IT's head table. And, reflecting its newfound status, backup and recovery is taking on a more sophisticated, grown-up name: data protection, which encompasses backup recovery, archiving, retrieval, disaster recovery and business continuity. While the term "Data protection" covers a lot of ground, it's the first four areas - backup, recovery, archiving and retrieval - that are currently of highest interest. The bottom line is backup, restoration and safe archiving of electronic data can no longer be a "Hope it works" proposition.
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