that you’re in a

Is it time to breakup with your backup?

9 TOXIC RELATIONSHIP

WARNING SIGNS

Your backup vendor’s DNA is

appliance centric

Are you buying more appliances or more storage? Backups should leverage the cloud so even when you hit the storage limit, you’re not stuck buying another appliance.

1

You are locked into the

vendor’s cloud

Do you have a choice of which cloud to deploy your data? You should have the flexibility to choose where your backups are stored – private, vendor, or 3rd party cloud.

2

Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service

isn’t built into the backup solution

Can you keep your critical applications running in natural or man-made catastrophe? You should have the ability to instantly boot and access critical files within minutes of a disaster.

3

Recovering data from the cloud

takes days

Is your internet connection slowing down your cloud backup? Bandwidth should be optimized by your backup vendor’s technologies to improve data transfer over a wide area network.

4

Cloud storage is tethered to

appliance storage

Are you deleting data to make room for your growing data? Untether your appliance with the cloud so you don’t have to delete files or buy a bigger appliance when your data grows.

5

Backup appliance still functions

like purpose-built appliance

Is your cloud storage limited by your appliance’s storage limit? Your backup should have a cloud storage gateway that spillovers excess data to your bottomless cloud storage.

6

Not treating mission-critical

data critical

Are you treating all data equally? Your backup solution should intelligently segment the most critical data with short recovery time objectives (RTO) so most critical data are always protected.

7

Can’t protect all of

company’s data

Are you protecting data in multiple devices using multiple solutions? Your backup solution should protect data across multiple servers, devices, and operating systems.

8

Pricing is complicated

and confusing

Are you choosing from hundreds of different models that require accurate sizing of the appliance? Make the cloud the center of your backup world and break from the pricing of appliance sizing.

9

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