Cloud adoption is on the rise, with over one-third of companies adding cloud-based infrastructure/services and/or migrating existing workloads to cloud (public, private, or hosted) as a primary strategy for ensuring business objectives and goals. IT decision makers are embracing a multicloud approach to leverage cloud-based services. These services both complement and can stimulate reconsideration of broader data protection strategies to gain greater availability and backup/recovery of data and improved performance of latency-sensitive applications.

This guide provides directions into what capabilities to look for within each of these categories and offers questions that IT and business decision makers should ask themselves as they evaluate their companies’ specific needs regarding backup and data protection solutions.