Mergers, cloud adoption and point purchases leave many organizations running two, three or more backup products. Each has its own console — and nobody has a single answer to “are we protected?”
What a single view should show
- Success, failure and warning rates by workload and site
- SLA compliance against RPO targets
- Unprotected or orphaned workloads
- Capacity trends and forecasts
- Recovery-test results and evidence
How to build it
Collect job and inventory data from each platform, normalize it into one model and compare it with your asset inventory to find gaps. Start with the questions leadership and auditors ask most often.
Common pitfalls
Counting jobs instead of workloads, ignoring SaaS and cloud data, and reporting success rates without testing restores all create false confidence.
Metrics that matter to leadership
- Percentage of critical workloads meeting their RPO this month
- Number of unprotected workloads found and resolved
- Recovery tests completed versus planned
- Average time to restore critical applications in tests
- Capacity runway in months for each backup platform
These metrics translate technical status into business risk. Reported monthly, they show whether data protection is improving and where investment is needed.
Key takeaways
- Report on workloads and SLAs, not just jobs.
- Compare backup coverage with your asset inventory.
- Include recovery-test evidence in the view.
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