Best practice guide: SharePoint data protection and disaster recovery

Overview

Organisations large and small are rapidly adopting Microsoft SharePoint as a standard platform for their online collaboration, portal, and other mission-critical services.

As end-users increasingly utilise SharePoint for regular business activities, organisations are confronted with the consequences of exponential growth in the volume of business-critical data residing in the platform, as well as its overall footprint. As a result, it has become crucial for today’s competitive organisations to be vigilant, and prepare for unplanned disasters via the creation of robust data protection and recovery solutions.

With a complex and distributed SharePoint deployment model, and with IT resources becoming increasingly constrained, organisations need an efficient and comprehensive disaster recovery solution to protect the wide variety of data and components that constitute their SharePoint farms.

This solution must be able to satisfy the most stringent business requirements and service level agreements, and have the capacity to scale effectively to maintain performance as the SharePoint footprint expands.