Data Backup Software | Intuitive Data Backup Reporting

By Natasha | November 15, 2011 @ 9:32 am

What you should be looking for in endpoint business data backup software for your business

Data Backup Software: Enterprise Data Protection Requirements | Intuitive Data Backup Reporting

In our first two posts we discussed the importance of:

Data Backup Software | Effective Backup & Recovery

By Natasha | November 14, 2011 @ 11:31 am

What you should be looking for in endpoint business data backup software for your business

Data Backup Software: Enterprise Data Protection Requirements | Effective endpoint data backup & recovery

In our last post we discussed the importance of complete central management in a data backup solution for enterprise environments. (Read it here)

This post explores the technical requirements that provide effective endpoint data backup & recovery. As this post is part of our series on data backup software requirements, you may want to read our previous post first.

When selecting endpoint data backup software, IT must ensure that data backup and recovery is effective, secure, customizable and that the solution provides features that make data protection in large environments across multiple users simpler and more cost-effective.

Data Backup Software | Choosing the right business solution

By Natasha | November 8, 2011 @ 11:54 am

What you should be looking for in endpoint data backup software for your business

Data Backup Software: Enterprise Data Protection Requirements

The data backup software market has experienced significant growth over the past few years due to the obvious requirement for business data loss prevention, intensified legal consequences of lost or mismanaged business data, the prevalence of users working remotely, and the growth in number of organization’s using laptops or other mobile devices as their primary system.

Gartner has reported that at least 28% of all corporate data resides exclusively on its laptops (and increasingly on other endpoint devices). Gartner has also highlighted endpoint user data security as one of the imperative considerations faced by IT today (ID #: G00211731)

The demand for effective endpoint protection, in the form of data backup software, in Enterprise environments has led to a number of products focused on solving this problem. There has also been significant movement in the market from an acquisition and investment perspective, solidifying industry analyst predictions that the endpoint data protection space is growing at a significant rate.

This proliferation of different data backup software solutions has resulted in a smorgasbord of options for IT Managers and CIO’s. How does one distinguish which features are most important, and without spending months on testing, how can IT ensure that their business data is going to be effectively protected?

Quick Fix: The seven key data backup software features

The Problem: User-managed Data Backup solutions don’t work

Any backup solution that requires user involvement isn’t going to work- particularly in an enterprise environment. Attempting to manage and monitor multiple users- ensuring that they are backing up their business critical data to a central server or removable device is a seemingly impossible task that not only effects IT productivity but does not comply with data protection laws and regulations in large organizations (and particularly in industries such as the public sector, healthcare and finance.)