As Microsoft SharePoint has increased in popularity, IT organizations are attaching higher levels of importance to SharePoint in the form of more aggressive recovery time objectives (RTOs). A detailed analysis of ESG research data finds that RTOs are likely to be lowest when organizations are using SharePoint for applications such as customer or partner Web sites, enterprise search, and electronic data discovery. IT vendors with data protection solutions optimized for SharePoint environments will find the most receptive audience among customers currently using or planning to use these more advanced SharePoint capabilities.