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• The frequency and cost of outages is driving organizations to enhance their data protection and resiliency. Data protection for SaaS workloads has become a top concern because platforms such as Microsoft 365, Salesforce and Google Workspace support essential production workloads for most organizations.
• Though the data protection space has many mature and innovative offerings, choosing the wrong platform could put an organization’s data and business at risk and lead to higher costs. Common data protection best practices should be factored into the evaluation of any solution. An example is the 3-2-1 rule, which calls for organizations to store three copies of data (including the original), with backups stored on two different types of media, and with one copy stored offsite. The rise of security threats such as ransomware and the ongoing evolution of compliance requirements are also major factors that highlight the need for immutable s
• Organizations would be wise to seek out Microsoft 365 data protection vendors and service providers that have a strong relationship with Microsoft and the product team. A strong data protection vendor would have integration with the SaaS vendor’s API and would have a product development cycle committed to adding new features and updating the platform to leverage new APIs and protect new workloads and applications as Microsoft 365 expands and evolves

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