Long-term retention backups, if not managed correctly, can represent a bit of a horror situation for businesses — they can drive up costs and cause legal/regulatory headaches for the business. There are in fact seven distinct challenges that the use of long-term retention backups introduce:
- Cost
- Future recoverability
- Testing
- Platforms and media management
- Organisational change
- People and processes
- Legal and auditing
Rather than handling this as a traditional blog post, I want to cover the challenges caused in a whitepaper, which you can access below — no registration required.