Backups: Cloud & On-Premises

What is the 3-2-1 Rule? (Necessary Starting Point)

• • There should be 3 copies of data
  • On 2 different media
  • With 1 copy being off-site (typically cloud)

Some of the most primitive implementations would have the 3-2-1 Rule as follows:

• • Production data (Copy 1, media 1)
  • Backup data on a networked repository (Copy 2, media 2)
  • Disaster recovery off site (Copy 3, media 3)

Applications and files are critical to businesses and ensuring their continuity is a top priority. Different applications and workloads carry different levels of criticality and need to be protected differently depending on your specific business needs. With workloads covering more platforms that extend past on-premises data into service provider clouds, the public cloud and SaaS based platforms, it’s important to understand how to protect key workloads no matter where they reside.

By breaking down your application workloads into levels of criticality, you can identify which ones need protecting at lower recovery point objectives (RPOs) and how quickly they need to be recovered, which is attached to the recovery time objectives (RTOs).

We can help identify these workloads and use the latest technology to provide the level of coverage needed. Contact us today!