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Data class
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Description
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Attributes
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| Mission-critical |
The most valuable data, high access |
High performance, highest possible availability/protection, may require continuous data protection |
| Business-critical |
Valuable data, average access |
Good performance, good availability, less than eight-hour recovery |
| Fixed content |
Compliance or reference data |
Good performance, high availability, recovery typically depends on regulatory issues |
| Nonsensitive |
Rarely accessed, low value data that still should be kept online |
Low performance, low investment in hardware and protection services |
| Offline data |
All remaining data |
SOURCE: ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES |
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