Tip #3: Plan for the Worst Case Scenario
The third and final layer of data protection in a cloud environment is the one that no business ever wants to think about. What if your SaaS provider cannot meet its SLAs? What if the application goes down for 48 hours in the middle of the week? What if your data is trapped inside the application itself? No matter the scenario, organizations still need a way to access their data and make it available to users.
Before implementing a SaaS application, IT leaders need to consider how they will be able to easily search the backups and/or export the data to another database to run queries against it and provide users the data they need if the original application is not online. Planning for the worst-case scenario will allow the business to keep running even if access to the original SaaS application isn't feasible.