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two, three or ninety nine copies of files so often generated and saved by teams working on projects. Equally, the use of disk imaging solutions may help with protecting file based data held on PCs and laptops, perhaps in combination with Continuous Data Protection solutions (CDP) to ensure that important changes to data are not lost in the event of a PC failure between conventional backups.
Organisations may also start looking at deploying “archiving” solutions in tandem with their primary storage to hold data that is no longer continuously, or even frequently, accessed by users on more cost effective platforms.
Archiving solutions can be very effective for holding static data that does not change rapidly but which it is required to keep available for either regulatory requirements or to meet important, but rarely generated, instances of user access need.
Until recent times most archiving solutions have been deployed in areas of business where a specific business driver (such as legislation) has required its use. The
time may have come for archiving to be deployed more generically but the vendors have some work to carry out to allow organisations to deploy in this manner without greatly increasing the workload on IT staff.
With new technologies available and long standing challenges still unresolved, it is a good time for organisations to look at how their data protection systems function as a whole, particularly around backup and restore.
In most companies data protection operates the way it does because that there has been a lack of focus on the challenges and changing requirements. With data privacy a factor growing in public attention and with organisations beginning to truly recognise the value of their data, the “keep on going as we are” approach is not longer tenable.
Such challenges are also likely to add another layer of complexity to data protection processes and solutions when disposal of information at the end of its useful life or when demanded by regulations are taken into consideration.
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