Published on July 30, 2009
The following is an Interview with Deepak Mohan, senior
vice president of Symantec's Information Management Group who provides
his thoughts on the future of data protection. The last five years
have demanded a dramatic shift in data protection technologies.
As organizations realize they have increasingly more platforms,
applications, servers, virtual machines, and databases to protect
than ever before, they have begun to realize that technology from
five years ago can no longer address their challenges.
Additionally, as businesses become more global, heterogeneous in
nature, and require 24x7 availability – downtime is not tolerated.
Therefore, we have seen a shift from tape to disk as the 'center
of gravity.' In many ways this shift really parallels the shift
among consumers from VCRs to DVD players to DVRs. Users will also
turn to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and 'backup in the cloud' technologies
in order to protect data in today's business environment. Whatever
the approach, data protection will need to stay on IT's priority
list. Next Generation Data Protection technologies that are complete,
powered by disk and centered around recovery will enable users to
keep up with the growing demands.
To read further, please visit the Data Center Journal
website:
http://datacenterjournal.com/content/view/3048/40/
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