4. . Provide application administrators with direct visibility into the recoverability of the specific IT services they are responsible for managing, and give them the capability to leverage specialized data protection tools to perform granular, platform-specific backup and recovery tasks. This will enable you to by-pass the time-consuming, two-step recovery process that makes application recovery so challenging with most traditional backup strategies.

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