The document provides guidance on how to become a "data protection hero" by focusing on protecting applications that are critical to business operations. It recommends gaining insight into data protection risks and approaches, investigating software-defined protection options, determining short- and long-term strategy focuses, understanding different application recovery needs, and rethinking protection beyond basic backup to ensure data is always available.

1. Source: Greg Schulz, Founder and Sr. Advisory Analyst, Server StorageIO® and UnlimitedIO LLC, from the webcast, “How to Become a Data Protection Hero,” organized by Redmond Magazine, February 2016.
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Gain insight
and awareness.
Assess risks and approaches
for mitigating them.
Shift focus to
data protection.
Investigate new ways to
support your environment
beyond backup.
Understand
software-defined
data protection.
Protect all your applications —
physical, virtual and in
the cloud.
Pinpoint your
strategy plan.
Classify the factors that drive
your strategy, plan and
implementation.
Determine
your focus.
Determine whether it’s
short-term, long-term,
or hybrid.
Don’t treat
all applications
the same.
Understand the different
RTOs, RPOs, retention
requirement and frequencies
of each application.
How to become a
Data Protection Hero
Identify
threat risks and
challenges.
Categorize what you need
to protect, and when,
where, why, how, for how
long and how often.
Rethink data
protection.
Focus on protecting the
applications that keep your
business running.
It’s time… to move beyond backup and
recovery and into the world of always-on.