Linda Mentzer - SEPATON

It’s every information exec’s worst nightmare: the phone rings and it’s the newspaper. The reporter is going to be running a story the next day about the your business losing a whole bunch of data. Do you want to make a comment?

Staying out of the headlines is easier than you think. Most businesses have their hearts in the right place when it comes to data protection and security, especially when data grows into 100s of terabytes. But check the SLA that you approved when you last enhanced your data protection environment. With massive data growth is your data protection environment still meeting your recovery time and recovery point objectives? What percent of your current data is actually backed up regularly? Are all backups completing successfully? Are backup windows being met? Are restores tested on a regular basis? Is data being sent offsite for disaster recovery? If so, is the data secure in transit and at the remote site? How quickly can you get up and running if a disaster strikes?

When you choose your data protection solution, it is wise to partner with vendors that have a proven track record in protecting large amounts of mission critical data. Choose solutions specifically designed for enterprises with large amounts of data to protect that can easily and cost effectively scale with your data growth.

It’s all up to you to keep your information exec out of the headlines.