Introduction
Data powers insights, innovation, and competitive advantage.
Data is the life force of the modern enterprise.
Data powers insights, innovation, and competitive advantage, but organizations are now facing unprecedented challenges with its management. Rapidly increasing data volume and complexity have resulted in businesses utilizing a costly combination of storage infrastructure silos, resulting in poor performance scaling. Disparate workload types and varied protocols require different types of management systems and support, leading to reduced productivity across edge to cloud. Subject matter experts (SMEs) are necessary to administer complex architecture, and data systems are difficult to maintain leading to suboptimal availability.
In addition, there are challenges in securing the ever-increasing amounts of data from edge to cloud, leaving enterprises struggling with inefficient backup, protection, and recovery protocols. The basic approach to security has remained the same over the years. Copy the data that changed in production environments during off-peak hours, and store that copy in a secondary location. This method impacts network performance, leads to inconsistent recovery, and is complicated and time consuming. Finally, budget constraints involved with both data storage and protection often force organizations to compromise between advanced capabilities and price.2,3
