{"id":5162,"date":"2022-12-20T20:03:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T01:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/backup-disaster-recovery\/?p=5162"},"modified":"2023-01-20T15:21:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T20:21:03","slug":"keys-to-consider-when-evaluating-cloud-data-protection-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/backup-disaster-recovery\/keys-to-consider-when-evaluating-cloud-data-protection-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Key Things to Consider When Evaluating Cloud Data Protection Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is part of Solutions Review\u2019s Premium Content Series, a collection of contributed columns written by industry experts in maturing software categories. In this submission, Keepit<\/a> Chief Customer Officer Niels van Ingen offers four essential keys to consider when evaluating cloud data protection tools.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"No one likes surprises, particularly IT executives who believe their SaaS cloud providers have taken all the necessary steps to back up customers\u2019 critical enterprise data<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. This is never truer when a catastrophic disaster strikes, whether from an internal mistake or an attack from the outside, leaving business operations at a complete standstill.<\/p>\n

The unfortunate truth is that most SaaS providers don\u2019t offer the necessary level of data backup and recovery<\/a><\/strong><\/span> that enterprises require to get back up and running.<\/p>\n

And guess what? If you read the cloud agreement, you\u2019ll discover SaaS vendors aren\u2019t responsible for data backup. The onus is on you.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy for individuals and businesses using popular cloud-based services to believe their data is \u201cbacked up in the cloud\u201d and easily retrievable in the event of an attack or accidental deletion. However, they quickly learn \u2013 often too late\u2013 that backup services<\/a><\/strong><\/span> from SaaS vendors are usually very limited, disorganized, or prohibitively expensive to access. Customers also get surprised when learning that many SaaS providers offer a limited data retention period, where after such time, the data is permanently deleted.<\/p>\n

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Cloud Data Protection Tools<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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What is Your Business Without The Data?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Imagine a scenario where your mission-critical data is suddenly gone. Customer data, employee personnel records, email, financial data, intellectual property, and other confidential information suddenly go missing. Just like that, access to the SaaS applications that have become so ingrained in your daily business operations and that contain the institutional knowledge critical to run the business are now gone.<\/p>\n

When this happens, your first call may be to the SaaS provider to (hopefully) retrieve backup files. But when you learn that only a fraction of your data is available, the full impact of the data loss sinks in, particularly when you learn it could take weeks or months to piece back together what data is available.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, this hypothetical example isn\u2019t so imaginary. It happens every day. The good news is that it\u2019s avoidable by deploying your own SaaS cloud backup software.<\/p>\n

86 Percent Rely on Their SaaS Vendor for Backup<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Research from Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) revealed some interesting statistics<\/a> regarding SaaS cloud backup that support the first lesson of data protection<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. Despite the notion of shared responsibility for data backup and recovery, the truth is that the responsibility rests with the customer.<\/p>\n