Many may see backup as the most important task in the data center, but remember we back up so that we may recover critical data, workloads and systems for various reasons. Ranging from disaster recovery to data reuse that enables business acceleration, needs differ from vertical to vertical. Recovery is the one thing that requires the flexibility to meet your specific needs with the reliability that you can recover with confidence when and where needed. The real question to ask is, “which data is most important to my business, and which recovery best meets our needs?” While there are many recovery methods available for many varied types of data, applications and systems — ultimately, you must choose which ones work best to achieve the recovery objectives that best meet your SLAs.