Published on July 30, 2009

The Future of Data Protection

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.

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