Data protection, including backup, is often regarded as an unsolvable nuisance that adds complexity and budgetary burden while remaining unreliable and cumbersome. The goal of this book is not to persuade you to purchase anything — in fact, no vendors or products are listed except for Veeam’s cover logo and back cover product information as the sponsor of this guidebook. Veeam feels it’s critical for you to gain an understanding of and a formulaic approach to quantifying technical recovery capabilities, business impacts, and financial concerns related to data protection.