Establish an Effective Data Protection Plan
Give data the attention it deserves by building a strategy that goes beyond backup.
- Business requirements can be vague. Not knowing the business needs often results in overexpenditure and overexposure to liability through data hoarding.
- Backup options are abundant. Disk, tape, or cloud? Each has drawbacks, efficiencies, and cost factors that should be considered.
- Backup infrastructure is never greenfield. Any organization with a history has been doing backup. Existing software was likely determined by past choices and architecture.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Don’t let failure be your metric.
The past is not an indication of future performance! Quantify the cost of your data being unavailable to demonstrate value to the business. - Stop offloading backup to your most junior staff.
Data protection should not exist in isolation. Get key leadership involved to ensure you can meet organizational requirements. - A lot of data is useless. Neglecting to properly tag and classify data will lead to a costly data protection solution that protects redundant, useless, or outdated data
Impact and Result
- Determine the current state of your data protection strategy by identifying the pains and gains of the solution and create a business-facing diagram to present to relevant stakeholders.
- Quantify the value of data to the business to properly understand the requirements for data protection through a business impact analysis.
- Identify the attributes and necessary requirements for your data tiers to procure a fit-for-purpose solution.
Establish an Effective Data Protection Plan Research & Tools
Start here – read the Executive Brief
Read this Executive Brief to understand why the business should be involved in your data protection plan, review Info-Tech’s methodology, and understand the four ways we can support you in completing this project.
1. Define the current state of your data protection plan
Define the current state of your data protection practices by documenting the backup process and identifying problems and opportunities for the desired state.
2. Conduct a business impact analysis to understand requirements for restoring data
Understand the business priorities.
3. Propose the future state of your data protection plan
Determine the desired state.
4. Establish proper governance for your data protection plan
Explore the component of governance required.
Member Testimonials
After each Info-Tech experience, we ask our members to quantify the real-time savings, monetary impact, and project improvements our research helped them achieve. See our top member experiences for this blueprint and what our clients have to say.
Client
Experience
Impact
$ Saved
Days Saved
Corporation Of The City Of Orillia
Guided Implementation
9/10
N/A
2
City Of Chesapeake
Guided Implementation
10/10
$60,319
60
H.W. Kaufman
Guided Implementation
7/10
N/A
N/A
Scott County Iowa
Guided Implementation
9/10
$31,833
8
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Guided Implementation #1 - Define the Current State
- Call #1 - Establish project rationale.
- Call #2 - Create a diagram of the current state.
- Call #3 - Identify problems and opportunities.
Guided Implementation #2 - Conduct a Business Impact Analysis
- Call #1 - Identify systems and scoring criteria.
- Call #2 - Conduct the impact analysis.
Guided Implementation #3 - Propose the Future State
- Call #1 - Determine attributes for data protection solution.
- Call #2 - Create a diagram of the future state.
- Call #3 - Find knockout criteria.
Guided Implementation #4 - Establish Governance
- Call #1 - Review IT operations, auditing, and compliance best practices for the data protection plan.
Contributors
- David Kerrivan, Group Commissioner, 1st Greenwood VC Scouting
- Thomas Kolbe, Systems Architect, University of San Diego
- Adam Little, System Engineer I, Rivers Casino Holdings Acquisitions Co.
- Mark Coney, Systems Engineer, Healthcare/Academic
- Michael Somerville, NISS Manager, University of San Diego
- Phillip Warren, Olivet Nazarene University
- Jackie Ramsey, System Administrator, Liberty Medical Group
- Nick Furnell, Senior Systems Engineer, Transform Medical Group
- Brandon Lovelace, Santa Barbara City College
- Tim Campbell, President, Ascendum IMS LLC
