5 Steps To Reducing Your Backup Window

You understand the economic consequences of data loss or data unavailability, because it is your job to protect your company's information assets. It is vital that you go into any new IT program objectively and with a clear set of business goals. If your objective is to reduce your backup window:

1. Determine the amount of data to protect
2. Determine the criticality and relative value of your data
3. Determine if a new data protection solution will help meet SLAs (Service Level Agreements) & data retention requirements
4. Verify that the results can be measured & documented to effectively measure ROI