A Timespring Whitepaper

Exchange has evolved into the glue between business processes within and between organizations. Much of our communications and decision-making relies on email and Exchange. As such Exchange is important, even critical, to most businesses.

Like any valuable corporate asset, it is important to protect it and ensure access to data as needed. In some cases, the handling and availability of Exchange data is even subject to regulation and legal discovery. Backup has proven overly complex, disruptive and ineffective in meeting business requirements for the safeguarding and accessibility of Exchange-resident data. High profile losses of backup tapes by Time Warner and Bank of America in 2005 are causing many organizations to question if there isn't a better way to safeguard data. Disk-based, application-aware Continuous Data Protection is emerging as a superior choice for protecting data for widely deployed and important applications such as Exchange. Not only does CDP provide better protection than backup, but it improves recovery and access to Exchange data. CDP is non-disruptive, reliable and easier to manage, so can reduce both the overhead costs and risk inherent in backup.

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