What are the benefits of managed backup/recovery?
There are a lot of benefits companies can derive from getting someone else to take on the burden of data backup. First and foremost is offloading the complexity associated with data backup. Quite honestly, backup applications really aren’t that great. Most of them are fairly complicated to deploy. If you are asleep at the switch or take someone away from the switch for too long, they will degrade and turn into a complete train wreck. A lot of companies either don’t have the time or resources to focus on backup. So what would you get out of doing a managed data backup services? In a lot of cases, you would get better service levels because you’re bringing in people who are focused on backup and do it for a living. There is potential in a lot of environments, especially in midsized companies, to lower capital and the operational costs associated with backup. This can be compounded by policies, and in a lot of cases, you’ll have legacy hardware and legacy configurations that can be optimi
