Protecting Your Data Lake: Strategic or Business as Usual?

Today’s data protection challenges are far more complex than those that existed just a few years ago. Pressure on legacy solutions has grown due to budget constraints, data growth, the growing difficulty of meeting backup windows, and the need to restore and recover data faster while supporting legal and compliance laws.

The number of data protection solutions continues to grow. Newer approaches such as cloud backup are quickly maturing and many enterprises are now considering or implementing backup as a service for specific use cases. While cloud services have the potential to make backup easier, the “bring your own device” uptake is flooding IT departments with personal smartphones, tablets, and notebooks and increases the potential for future data loss.

Organisations that want to remain competitive while mitigating risk and vulnerabilities must look to strategically transform their existing legacy approaches to protect their growing storage assets. The addition of governance and compliance into the data protection environment makes it imperative for storage professionals to highlight how the lack of effective data protection and compliance is now becoming a constraint on the business. They must build and articulate a transformational business case for backup and data protection projects that provides positive and measurable business outcomes.

In this Knowledge Sharing article, Russell Easter demonstrates how a combination of EMC “Data Profiling Assessment” analysis, creation of a Data Protection Business Dependency Network, and adoption of a “Stabilize and Optimize” strategy can help to secure project funding for your storage protection initiatives.

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