Trends Report

Brief: New Data Resiliency Approaches Render Backup Obsolete

Expect Failure, Plan For It, And You Will Succeed At Serving Customers

February 5th, 2016
Naveen Chhabra, Principal Analyst
Naveen Chhabra Principal Analyst
With contributors:
Glenn O'Donnell , Stephanie Balaouras , Andrew Hewitt , Bill Nagel

Summary

Technology service disruptions have far-reaching effects that can cost your business customers if you don't take the right approach to resiliency. Backup systems have been a staple of business continuity and disaster recovery since the dawn of the data center, but new options are eliminating the need to perform traditional data backup and recovery. Infrastructure and operations (I&O) pros need to make their services resilient in the face of any planned or unplanned service disruption. This report helps I&O pros understand the shift in data resiliency options that they have to achieve business technology resiliency.

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