I personally feel, CDP is way too broad of a term to keep it relegated to the high-end of the market.

if this discussion thread causes even one poor SMB owner to ask more questions about what CDP solutions would do for them; and perhaps prevent them from purchasing an overpriced over featured solution for their needs, then I say “bring on the confusion.”

SR

It seems your want to address to issue of data recovery options for SMBs. Good. You offer that SMBs might not need a system where each and every write is saved; that a rapid-fire variant of periodic backup would be more appropriate, weighing risks and costs. Fine. But to bend the meaning of ‘continuous’ to sometimes mean ‘every so often’ or ‘whenever there is a connection available’ - that to me is a problem. Any word can mean anything that we agree on, but for it to mean anything at all, we’d better stick to one meaning. Marketers will try to label anything with a TLA that smells like big boys stuff, but in the end we are all victims. Remember Token Ring’s Source ROUTING, which had nothing in common with routing but sounded so good? No wonder IT is infamous for using unintelligent language.

I’m sure there are good descriptive terms for the type of discontinuous, high frequency, nearest opportunity data protection that surely could benefit SMBs.