Secure protocols like TLS and SSH help prevent unauthorized access, ensuring data confidentiality, and they also maintain data integrity, preventing data tampering during transmission.

Recovery strategies should align with business requirements to meet organizational objectives. This alignment ensures that the recovery plan addresses the specific needs and priorities of the business, including data recovery priorities, resource allocation, and minimizing disruptions to operations.

An incremental backup is a type of backup that only includes data that has changed since the last backup, reducing storage space and backup time compared to full backups.

Commvault's reporting options offer a range of report types, including operational reports that focus on day-to-day activities, management reports for higher-level analysis, compliance reports to meet regulatory needs, and custom reports tailored to specific business requirements. Reporting plays a crucial role in providing insights into data management processes and ensuring that organizations can track, analyze, and optimize their data effectively.

The scripting language in Commvault allows for seamless integration with existing workflows. This integration capability ensures that scripts can be easily incorporated into existing processes without causing disruptions or requiring significant changes to the workflow structure.

Commvault employs robust data encryption measures during cloud storage integration to ensure compliance with data protection regulations. Data encryption helps protect data at rest and in transit, reducing the risk of unauthorized access and data breaches.

Integration with third-party storage solutions enhances Commvault's scalability and interoperability capabilities, enabling seamless data backup, disaster recovery, and data management across diverse storage environments, improving overall efficiency and data protection capabilities.

Key management in data encryption involves storing keys separately from encrypted data, using strong and randomly generated keys, restricting key access to authorized users, and regularly rotating keys to enhance security. Storing keys with encrypted data or sharing keys openly can lead to security vulnerabilities. Following best practices in key management is essential for maintaining the confidentiality and integrity of encrypted data.

Synthetic Full Backup combines the advantages of incremental backups (efficiency) and full backups (completeness), making it ideal for minimal data loss scenarios. It reduces backup time and storage requirements while ensuring comprehensive recovery capabilities. This strategy is well-suited for large corporations where data loss must be minimized without compromising on recovery speed or storage efficiency.

Deduplication storage pools in Commvault help in managing data growth effectively by optimizing storage utilization. Deduplication reduces redundant data, thus saving storage space and simplifying data management. This feature does not directly affect backup speed, data integrity, disaster recovery, data security, or compliance. Therefore, option 3 is the correct choice.

Deduplication storage pools in Commvault are designed to reduce costs by eliminating data redundancy and optimizing storage space. When data is deduplicated, redundant copies are removed, which directly impacts the storage space required for backups. This reduction in data redundancy leads to efficient use of storage resources and ultimately helps in reducing costs associated with storage infrastructure and backup operations.

Commvault's reporting options enable organizations to set up real-time alerts for critical backup events, ensuring proactive identification and resolution of issues to maintain data availability and integrity.