Data protection and availability is a key component of business continuity with a main goal to safeguard important data from destruction, alteration, or loss, and to ensure 24/7/365 availability. It is achieved through a combination of technology, business processes, best practices, and rite team. Core components of a data protection strategy are backup and recovery, remote data movement, storage system security, clustering, mirroring and etc. It is important to stress that high availability doesn’t just happen. It is only achieved through strengthening the combination of people, processes, and technology. A focus purely on technology will never achieve very high levels of availability because many of the significant factors that affect availability stem from the interaction of people and processes. Enabling the proper hardware, software and database platform is only a starting point. ILM stress that high availability is the result of good planning and practices in combination with the appropriate technologies and on ground technical team