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Data Protection Workflow: Page 2 of 2

I was speaking with Bocada and Tek-Tools last week about their focus on helping customers solve their data protection challenges. If you think about it there is no shortage of solutions to protect your environment, and I am encountering more than a few data centers that have the same data set protected four or five times. Ironically, they don't feel anymore comfortable about recovery. The problem is a lack of process or workflow to all these point solutions.
George Crump
December 08, 2009

With a workflow defined, you now have something to monitor to make sure
it is all working. This could be automated through a monitoring tool
that could support various data protection processes, but even manual
auditing of the process would be greatly sped up by following a
workflow.

Finally, part of the workflow would be what to do in a recovery. It
should be situationally based on the recovery conditions. Is this a test,
a disaster or something in between? All the circumstances that could
cause a failure should be defined and a workflow developed.

Developing a data protection workflow will improve the quality of the
protected data, could reduce costs associated with data protection and
should reduce the amount of time spent dealing with data protection.
All of this should lead to improved and more frequent testing which leads to improved confidence to recover from any type of
disaster.

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