Question 1

What is the definition of SaaS data protection?

Accepted Answer

SaaS data protection offers organizations tools to manage and safeguard critical SaaS apps, endpoints, and hybrid cloud environments from data loss threats such as corruption, accidental deletion, and malicious attack. Compared to traditional solutions, SaaS backup solutions or SaaS backup software delivers comprehensive coverage in the cloud, enabling businesses to keep data safe and recoverable, with simplified management, frictionless deployments, and zero hardware expenses.

Question 2

What is SaaS data protection?

Accepted Answer

Proper SaaS data protection helps businesses to assure that data is secure and can be rapidly restored (with full-fidelity) to prevent data loss, whatever the cause. This helps minimize operational downtime while also reducing damage caused by lost or irretrievable data, especially in the event of security breaches. SaaS data protection solutions can also ensure data remains accessible for authorized users and is also compliant with relevant regulatory requirements according to both government and industry standards.

Question 3

How does SaaS data protection work?

Accepted Answer

SaaS data protection provides solutions for elevated data security and control to help admins and IT professionals deliver organizational continuity and resilience. This is often done through a third-party solution or service that keeps data retained, secure, and recoverable, especially for companies that are unable to invest in a full in-house team to oversee the protective effort. By safeguarding, managing, and allowing for high availability of data under all circumstances, SaaS backup software automates data backup processes. SaaS data protection solutions are built in the cloud and preserve data copies outside of source environments. This allows organizations to decouple SaaS backup software and recovery operations from the systems and applications they protect. By storing data in air-gapped, immutable, and highly available locations, SaaS backup solution solutions preserve data copies, in a separate security domain, which cannot be deleted, tampered, or altered. This means ransomware attacks, malicious insiders, or accidental deletion events which impact a business’ production data, cannot also spread to their SaaS backup software. Complimented with rapid and granular recovery tools, IT admins can quickly restore specific data sets, versions, or whole environments—all at scale.

Question 4

Why is SaaS data protection important?

Accepted Answer

Data is everywhere. For any company that lacks proper protection of their SaaS apps, endpoints, or hybrid cloud environments, there is an ever-present risk of data loss or attack—which can cause long-lasting or even permanent damage to the business. Data loss can come in many shapes and sizes, from human error and accidental deletion to network corruption and evolving ransomware attacks. Organizations must find a way to comprehensively protect their data from a growing variety of threats, leading many businesses to adopt SaaS data protection to safeguard their critical assets – while driving operational efficiencies.

Question 5

Does Metallic offer SaaS data protection?

Accepted Answer

With Metallic, organizations are empowered with the ability to stop data loss before it gets to an irrecoverable state or causes irreparable damage to the company brand and customer trust. Built on industry-leading Commvault technology, Metallic empowers companies of every size and in every industry to keep business-critical data safe, compliant, and recoverable in the face of new and emerging threats.