US National Institute of Standards and Technology<\/a>. Take this list with you as you head to market.<\/span><\/p>\n1. Flexible Data Capture<\/strong> \u2013 A product should provide with continuous or periodic data journaling to protect information at a per-write\u00a0level of granularity. Periodic snapshots to give numerous bootable recovery images based on a pre-set schedule,\u00a0and advanced scheduling, retention, disposal and reclamation optimize snapshot capacity management.<\/span><\/p>\n2. Storage and Network Resource Efficiency<\/strong> \u2013 Deduplication and data compression technologies\u00a0minimize the amount of data that is sent over the network and ensure that it is efficiently stored, making it easier\u00a0and more cost-effective for you to protect all the data in your environment.<\/span><\/p>\n3. Backup Plans<\/strong> \u2013 A great backup and disaster recovery product will include easy-to-administer policies that specify how to make backup copies of your data. Each\u00a0plan will contain instructions for copying data, replicating data, making secondary and tertiary copies of data\u00a0(typically offsite), setting up and maintaining Virtual Standby machines and notifying administrators that a\u00a0backup job succeed or failed.<\/span><\/p>\n4. Encryption that Secures Data In-flight and At-rest<\/strong> \u2013 Data encryption modules \u00a0should be FIPS 140-2\u00a0certified by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology. Data is encrypted at the source before it\u00a0leaves the company LAN, so you can be sure that all your data is secure as it travels over public networks and\u00a0while it is stored in backup repositories.<\/span><\/p>\n5. Business Applications Protection<\/strong> \u2013 Disk image technology enables consistent backup of running applications. This allows you to backup Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint and active directory data as you work. Granular applications data may be restored without taking the systems offline, protecting your business from expensive downtime.<\/span><\/p>\n6. Unlimited Scalability, Monitoring and Control<\/strong> \u2013 By alleviating the burden of designing and managing complex business processes, your product should provide a single point of\u00a0control for defining, executing and monitoring data transfer and distribution tasks throughout an organization.<\/span><\/p>\n7. Off-Site Storage<\/strong> \u2013 Many solutions store your data in a SSAE 16 certified data warehouse. This warehouse uses secure\u00a0technologies and procedures to makes sure that all data is safe and secure if disaster strikes at your location.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a08. Supports Multiple Platforms<\/strong>– Backup and disaster recovery solutions should support Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems.<\/span><\/p>\n9. Supports Multiple Types of Data<\/strong>– Make sure our product supports different kinds of data including Unstructured Data, MS SQL, MS Exchange, HyperV, VMware, System State, NetApp and Server Images.<\/span><\/p>\n10. Bare Metal Recovery<\/strong> \u2013 Every BU&DR product should include bare metal recovery. This restores a Windows or Linux computer\u2019s system. complete operating environment, including files, settings and operating system, to a different hard disk, to a similar but different computer or to even a dissimilar computer.<\/span><\/p>\n
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