Data protection is an essential aspect of running a business. With the increasing complexity of technology and the ever-growing amount of data, it's becoming more challenging for companies or IT teams to manage it independently.

The reality is that while Microsoft provides infrastructure resilience, data protection remains your responsibility. And without third-party backup, sensitive business data such as emails or shared files stored in Microsoft 365 are not protected from the most common or most serious data loss issues, such as accidental deletions, malware attacks and more. 

Understanding each applications' resource requirements can be as easy as defining the actual usage of memory, storage and cpu by each application. However, there are pitfalls that companies tend to fall into which can result in inaccuracies that more often than not overstate and application's requirements.