Software-as-a-Service offerings have gained immense popularity in the business world and for good reasons. Actually, it is essential for organizations today to start migrating business-critical applications to the cloud. SaaS offerings generally include such applications as organization email, messaging, file storage, and other types of applications.
A critical aspect of SaaS for organizations is the realization that offering data protection, as soon as data hits these environments is absolutely necessary. In this article, we look into some of the mistakes to avoid with SaaS backup. Read on below to uncover more!
Failing to Backup SaaS Environments
Many organizations when migrating to the public cloud by counting on services such as Microsoft Office 365 tend to rationalize that these are ‘hyperscale’ vendors that have resiliency that’s unmatched. However, taking this approach on public cloud infrastructure and organization data can sometimes lead to serious data loss for potentially business-critical resources such as public cloud file storage email.
Remember, organizations need to protect their SaaS environments with some types of data protection solutions. In this way, these environments can be recovered in the event of a data loss disaster event.
Having No Retention Policy
There’s no denying that retention policies are extremely essential when thinking about the overall, disaster recovery footprint and design. And this is easy to see considering retention policies basically say how many ‘versions’ of backups are stored on disk or in the cloud by the data protection solution.
Either way, retention policies will most likely vary for every organization, as these are typically driven by the business needs and SLAs as decided upon for recovering data. Actually, most organizations are only interested in restoring the latest version of a file or email in the event that disaster strikes.
Skimping on SaaS Backup Security
Failing to take security into account with any business process or objective in today’s world is a serious mistake that businesses often fail to recover from. Security sometime is not thought about as much in the realm of disaster recovery or data protection. If you’ve been doing this then you should consider a change.
