Salesforce was designed to be a CRM, not a development platform, creating unique challenges not faced by conventional system, database or file system level backup strategies. These unique differences result in the need for data protection solutions to play a key role in meeting compliances requirements and supporting Salesforce development at speed.
Some of these extended requirements are operational – including speed of recovery (RTO) and elimination of data losses with recover point objectives (RPO). Others are regulatory – Privacy requirements for PII protection and needs to support national regulations such as GDPR. And large data sets on Salesforce can also drive higher expenses than local or other cloud storage options – so archiving capabilities are critical.