IT VENDOR MANAGEMENT
Software-as-a-Service ( SaaS ) and public cloud platforms offer pay-asyou-go means to access computing power and storage capability , as well as taking some of the headaches around managing IT infrastructures in-house . But , while centralising how critical business data is managed can provide huge total cost of ownership efficiencies , does it come at the cost of the service availability and uptime the business depends on ?
Dave Russell , VP of Product Strategy at Veeam , a privately held US-based information technology company owned by Insight Partners , explains what the old approach would entail : “ When it came to backing up the data from SaaS applications like Office 365 , for example , historically the approach has been to ‘ set and forget ’, relying on the built-in data protection capabilities offered by public cloud platforms . But when things like accidental deletion , ransomware and insider threats potentially wreak havoc , businesses need greater peace of mind that the entire array of data they ’ re producing and relying on every day is protected ”.
Russell suggests a disaster recovery tool is needed . One that works across all of the environments a business might use to store their data . According to Russell , even as
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