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•Guest Column: In Tough Economic Times You Can Still Build A Bridge To Better Data Protection

By Jerome M Wendt and Panos Hawandjian, DCIG, LLC

Today's tough economic times are changing many aspects of the way businesses run that range from the way businesses promote themselves to the way they purchase products or support their growth internally. Yet one thing that all businesses have in common is that tough economic times force them to focus on their core objectives and how well their current technologies are delivering on meeting these goals. As companies go through these self-examinations, businesses tend to discover that the promised features of technologies they purchased in the past may turn out to provide them far less value than they anticipated or are becoming irrelevant as their infrastructures evolve. Nowhere does this hold truer than with their approach to enterprise data protection.

Both mid-tier and enterprise corporations alike often employ multiple point products to protect their data. IT organizations may use tape for their daily and weekly data protection while utilizing storage replication or other third party tools to replicate data to achieve near real-time recoveries. Yet these technologies are built upon yesterday's architectures and assumptions that leave significant gaps in data protection. Tape restoration times can range from several hours to days or even weeks depending on the volume of data being restored while storage replication does not automatically protect companies from application failures or from data corruption.

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•Guest Column: In Tough Economic Times You Can Still Build A Bridge To Better Data Protection