Compliance and security, litigation readiness and legal discovery, among other things, are driving greater attention to electronic information management strategies, from data retention schedules to destruction protocols. But do CIOs' best efforts meet the real requirements? Recent research reveals that IT professionals understand the fundamentals of managing and protecting data; however, key best practices are often not in place. Storage-as-a-Service enables enterprises to gain the very capabilities they need to bring their efforts to the next level. It can provide data protection and recovery across servers, shared files and even desktops; policy-based scheduled and automated archival and backup; more stringent recovery time and recovery point objectives than in-house programs; and categorization and indexing capabilities for eDiscovery. What's more, enterprises can leverage state-of-the-art technology without the capital investment.