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finds every byte of duplicate data without slowing backup or recovery performance. It then writes a complete backup to disk, while at the same time applying innovative forward-referencing. Tis fresh approach enables data managers to recapture capacity, while controlling exponential data growth efficiently. With an enterprise-class data protection system in place that is built for the job, they are quickly able to demonstrate the performance necessary to meet aggressive backup and restore targets, while having the detailed reporting and management statistics at their fingertips to justify the transformation to directors, customers and other stakeholders.
Keeping data flowing IT teams must implement sound growth plans for a single system of data management and storage protection that entirely eliminates organic growth of limited capacity physical storage structures. Purpose-built modular hardware will
deliver high processing power coupled with great storage capacity, and be
well-suited for incremental, ordered infrastructure growth. Continued monitoring and maintenance of an organised, grid-based layout of physical storage devices will then allow IT heads to implement high-ratio deduplication technology for the management of content and data storage. And once datacentre sprawl has finally been harnessed, IT managers should mandate clear processes of auditable data erasure to put the brakes on their own personal data explosion. Any IT professional at a large energy company who works for a board that backs their vision of data protection renewal is well on track to regain control of their datacentres. Te final jigsaw piece is a broader cultural shift that accepts that new roadmap for coping with data growth, and works with technology teams and business owners to ensure future scalability and success. l
Tim Butchart is senior vice president, Sepaton, Heathrow, UK.
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Datacentre sprawl is a phenomenon characterised by a poorly planned infrastructure of physical storage equipment that lacks long-term efficiency or data protection strategy.
Data experts at analyst firm IDC say that between 2005 and 2020, we will have witnessed a growth in worldwide digital data from 130 exabytes to 40,000 exabytes, with the total volume of global data doubling every year from now until 2020.
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