The Challenge
Why Hybrid Data Is Hard to Protect
Data lives in data centers, several clouds and SaaS applications. Each is often protected differently, or not at all.
Is This Relevant?
Is This Use Case Relevant to Your Organization?
The people, moments and signals that usually bring this need to the surface.
Relevant Teams
- Infrastructure and cloud teams
- Security teams
- Data owners
Common Triggers
- Cloud or SaaS adoption
- Backup platform consolidation
- A data loss incident in the cloud
Warning Signs
- Separate backup tools per platform
- Cloud or SaaS data with no backup
- No single view of protection
Typical Environments
- On-premises, cloud and SaaS data
- Servers, databases, files and business applications
Benefits
What Better Looks Like
Intended benefits. Actual results depend on your environment and starting point.
Our Approach
A Practical Approach
Protection designed around how quickly each system must recover. Each stage is tailored to your environment.
Assess
Review data, backups, recovery arrangements and past failures.
Prioritize
Rank what you find by business impact, effort and risk, and agree where to start.
Design
Agree protection policies, retention and recovery targets for each system.
Implement
Deploy backup, isolation and data protection controls.
Validate and Optimize
Test restores and cyber recovery against the agreed targets.
Solutions
Solutions That Can Help
The solutions that address this use case, starting with the primary one.
Services
How Signisys Can Support You
The services that deliver the approach, from the first assessment to ongoing improvement.
Technology
Technology Options
Where technology fits in the approach. Specific platforms and partner status are confirmed for each engagement.
Before You Start
What to Consider Before Getting Started
A little preparation makes the first assessment faster and its findings more reliable.
- Environments and applications in scope
- Data residency and transfer costs
- Retention needs across platforms
- Recovery targets for each workload
- Who will own the work and act on recommendations
- Engagement model and ongoing support
Measuring Success
How to Measure Success
Illustrative measures. Agree a baseline first, and keep targets separate from measured results.
Protected Workloads
Workloads covered by agreed policies.
Backup Success Rate
Jobs that complete across all environments.
Restore Test Success
Successful restores across environments.
Unprotected Data
Data found without protection.
Our Approach
How We Deliver Results
How Signisys works, from the first assessment to handover and beyond.
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about this use case.
How do we know our hybrid data is protected consistently?
If each platform uses a different tool and nobody can show protection status in one place, there are probably gaps.
Do we have to replace all our backup tools?
Not necessarily. Consolidation is considered where it helps, but consistent policies and reporting can also work across existing tools.
What information is needed to get started?
A list of environments and applications, current backup tools, retention policies and recovery targets.
Which environments does this apply to?
On-premises, cloud and SaaS data, including servers, databases and files.
How is progress measured?
Agree a baseline for measures such as protected workloads, backup success rate, restore test success and unprotected data, then track them over time.
Related Content
Related Outcomes, Use Cases and Guides
Where to go next: the outcome this use case supports, nearby scenarios, technology partners and practical guides.
Business Outcome
Strengthen Cybersecurity and Reduce Business Risk
Technology Partner
Commvault Solutions and Services
Technology Partner
Cohesity Solutions and Services
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