Backup for Microsoft 365 Evaluation Criteria Checklist

Given the current cybersecurity threat landscape, protecting your Microsoft 365 data is a no-brainer. However, finding the right solution that fits your organization’s needs can be daunting. Where do you begin?

That’s why we’ve put together this comprehensive evaluation checklist for you to properly compare various backup solutions for Microsoft 365 and ensure that you make the right choice for your organization.

Work through this checklist to identify key product features you should be considering and see for yourself how Spanning Backup for Microsoft 365 stacks up against the competition.

The checklist covers key evaluation criteria for Microsoft 365 data protection including:

  • Restore capabilities.
  • Backup capabilities, management and monitoring.
  • Administrative capabilities.
  • Security features.
  • Usability.

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The Complete SaaS Backup Buyer’s Guide

SaaS solutions have become a critical part of modern business. The volume of mission-critical data stored in them is growing by the second. However, many organizations still do not back up their SaaS data. They operate with a false belief that backing up SaaS data is not necessary and that solution providers back up and protect their data.

Most cloud service providers like Google, Microsoft and Salesforce follow the shared responsibility model. As per the model, the vendor is responsible for application uptime, availability and the underlying infrastructure, while the customer is responsible for data protection.

This buyer’s guide aims to inform IT decision-makers and professionals like you about the realities of SaaS data protection, what your responsibilities are with respect to SaaS data and the key things to consider when evaluating a backup solution.

The buyer’s guide covers:

  • Quick overview of the shared responsibility model.
  • Common SaaS data risks.
  • Best practices for protecting SaaS data.
  • SaaS backup evaluation criteria.
  • And more.

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3-Step Guide to Protecting Data in Microsoft 365

You’ve made the move to Microsoft 365 to take advantage of the benefits of the cloud. Ensuring that your data is protected in the cloud is as critical as protecting data stored on premises. It’s important to understand the steps necessary to provide complete protection for your Microsoft 365 data. As Microsoft says, “It’s your data, you own it.”

Microsoft 365 provides comprehensive platform protection to safeguard your data against hardware and software issues and to provide disaster recovery. Unfortunately, there are other ways to lose data that are your responsibility to protect against. That’s where Spanning Backup for Microsoft 365 can help.

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IT Risks: Backup and Recovery Blueprint

With the rapidly sprawling data footprints across multiple environments and increasingly dispersed hybrid workforce, enterprises now rely on their ICT infrastructure more than ever. As the critical functions that ensure business continuity rely on these ICT systems, it has become vital for businesses to keep their ICT systems up and running all the time. However, the rapidly evolving threat landscape poses a significant challenge on that front.

This eBook is designed to help organizations develop a comprehensive approach and realize ICT Readiness for Business Continuity (IRBC) so they can meet their operational goals and business objectives even in the event of an IT threat. This backup and recovery blueprint will help you effectively identify, address and recover from any disruptions to your ICT services. Read the eBook to learn more.

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Manage the Multiple Database Journey

The database is the backbone of the enterprise. Data is the currency of modern business, and organizations need to ensure consistent, optimal database performance to keep their business running smoothly.

The consequences of compromised or even suboptimal database performance can be significant; including delays in responses to customer inquiries, sales processes, and transaction processing.

In this whitepaper with SolarWinds, learn why ensuring efficient and effective operations across multiple databases is critical to maintaining business continuity and performance.

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SQL Server Indexing for Performance

SQL Server performance is critical for business applications to meet internal and external customer needs. Unfortunately, one of the most common SQL Server performance issues is related to missing or incorrect indexes. Microsoft® SQLServer® is relatively unique because, as a database engine, it records missing indexes it thinks will help queries.

In this whitepaper, we’ll dive into the following:

  • SQL Server indexing overview
  • How to improve the quality and performance of your indexes
  • Index information tracked by SQL Server, including index utilization, dynamic management views, the Query Store, and the execution plan cache
  • SQL Server index options, including clustered, nonclustered, Columnstore, and XML

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Zero to Hero — 12 Essential Tips for the Accidental DBA

A DBA’s job can seem thankless, and DBAs can feel underappreciated because the work they do isn’t always visible. But when application performance slows, and the database is being blamed, the work they do to keep the business up and running is quite evident.

This paper is for the accidental DBA and contains 12 essential tips for working with SQL Server®. These simple, yet powerful tips are filled with lessons learned on the front lines and from years of database administration experience. Following these tips can help transform the accidental DBA into an organized DBA with clear direction for better database performance.

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Whitepaper – Your Roadmap to Government IT Modernization

Today, government IT teams are expected to deliver more services with fewer resources. Consequently, many agencies have prioritized legacy modernization, interoperability and shared service models as a means towards increasing IT delivery capacity.

But those approaches are easier talked about than executed. As agencies embark on legacy modernization, it becomes imperative to open up the existing technology so that new innovations can be delivered as needed in a secure way.

In this guide, produced in partnership with Govloop, we will discuss

  • A five-play roadmap to help those in government get a better sense of where to start on modernization projects.
  • An overview of the Information Technology Modernization Fund (ITMF).
  • Featured government success stories highlighting their modernization projects.
  • The IT Modernization Lifecycle, based on the recent report by the American Council for Technology-Industry Advisory Council.

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Whitepaper – Your Roadmap to Government IT Modernization

Today, government IT teams are expected to deliver more services with fewer resources. Consequently, many agencies have prioritized legacy modernization, interoperability and shared service models as a means towards increasing IT delivery capacity.

But those approaches are easier talked about than executed. As agencies embark on legacy modernization, it becomes imperative to open up the existing technology so that new innovations can be delivered as needed in a secure way.

In this guide, produced in partnership with Govloop, we will discuss

  • A five-play roadmap to help those in government get a better sense of where to start on modernization projects.
  • An overview of the Information Technology Modernization Fund (ITMF).
  • Featured government success stories highlighting their modernization projects.
  • The IT Modernization Lifecycle, based on the recent report by the American Council for Technology-Industry Advisory Council.

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Developing apps in containers: 5 topics to discuss with your team

Sometimes talking to your development team can be difficult. You might be asking a lot from them with a limited budget, maintenance of existing systems, and tight deadlines. While you empower your developers to constantly learn new technologies and approaches, give them the tools that they need to be successful, the myriad of new information can be daunting. Check out these 5 questions for your app dev team to gauge how moving to containers and containerized application services and middleware can help them become more productive and efficient.

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Leading educational publisher halves time to market for new applications

To succeed in an increasingly competitive market, educational publishing company Scholastic decided to adopt a more flexible microservices-based development approach to offer new products and services faster. To take advantage of a supported Kubernetes container platform, the company chose to deploy Red Hat OpenShift ContainerPlatform on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This new environment lets developers reuse microservices to more efficiently build new services, with less focus on management and provisioning. Scholastic has not only cut its time to market in half, from months to weeks, but also improved its scalability and availability in response to shifting demand.

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Building apps in containers: 5 things to share with your manager checklist

It can be difficult to bring new solutions to your boss. You’re bumping up against budget, security, and the task of maintaining existing systems, and management is just trying to keep things up and running. Here are 5 key points to bring to your boss about developing applications and microservices using containers and enterprise Kubernetes to increase your rate of innovation and competitiveness.

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Ford Motor Company case study

Ford Motor Company seeks to provide mobility solutions at accessible prices to its customers, including dealerships and parts distributors who sell to a variety of retail and commercial consumers.To speed delivery and simplify maintenance, the company sought to create a container-based application platform to modernize its legacy stateful applications and optimize its hardware use. With this platform, based on Red Hat OpenShift and supported by Red Hat and Sysdig technology, Ford has improved developer productivity, enhanced its security and compliance approach, and optimized its hardware use to improve operating costs. Now, the company can focus on exploring new ways to innovate, from big data to machine learning and artificial intelligence.

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Moving legacy applications to containers

Legacy applications are not typically considered for public cloud deployments because of security, regulatory, data locality, or performance concerns. Containers make many of the services offered by public cloud providers possible and help increase automation.Migrating legacy applications to containers removes barriers to modernization. Red Hat® OpenShift® helps organizations complete this migration, letting them respond better to changing business demands. Read this brief to learn more.

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Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes Infographic

Red Hat® Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes offers end-to-end management visibility and control to manage your cluster and application life cycle, along with security and compliance of your entire Kubernetes domain across multiple data centers and public clouds. Check out this data sheet to learn more.

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