Recovery Management — What Is It And Why Is It Important? By Whitney Tidmarsh, EMC Corporation

Recovery management is a new, strategic approach to data protection that focuses on fast, reliable recovery as the aggregate goal of all protection activities. It combines backup, replication, continuous data protection (CDP), analytics and reporting, and management services in an integrated solution that delivers higher levels of recovery than any single technology, no matter how robust.

Recovery management relies heavily on information lifecycle management (ILM) principles to map protection and recovery services to the point-in-time business value of an application or information. EMC, the market leader in ILM, is a pioneer in the integration of protection hardware and software to achieve end-to-end recovery management solutions.

In today's network environment, as many as 60 percent of backups simply do not complete successfully. That means a lot of time and resources are expended while troubleshooting backup problems. And many organizations never test their backup data or recovery procedures. Can data be recovered? How long will it take? Will the recovered data be usable? Often, nobody seems to know.