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The Situation...
Can Praveen find the right data security solution to handle all complexities?
Amit Goel, Senior IT Manager of a manufacturing company, while taking stock of the entire IT infrastructure, particularly to check if the organisations s sensitive data was secure and protected, noticed several loopholes. The challenge grew multi-fold given the companys expansion and business growth. Goel then received a call from his top bosses for a business review meeting. His priority at that moment was to work out a data centre investment plan and provide economic justification for investment in a data protection program with an efficient backup.
The obvious question during the review meeting was with regard to his strategy for this. Besides consolidation, Goels challenge was to ensure intelligent backup, recovery, business continuity and disaster recovery plan, which could result in reduction in complexity, besides controlled costs.
As the data centre added more servers, increased number of network devices, more applications with business critical functionality, the management of the information storage became more complex. It also resulted in unmanageable security threats.
The primary task for Goel is to find ways to simplify data storage, make it secure, manageable, increase user accessibility, and address changing business needs. Goel has to find the right solutions to address these challenges. His task is to do more with less, improve RTO\RPO for data business assets, ensure tamper-proof access to critical data, handle data deluge and protect against data losses and disasters. Besides, complexity around deployment, backup and restore policies are a challenge.
Goel intends looking at data backup protection tools. However, the challenges do not end here. He also has to choose appropriate backup tools, which revolved around tape automation solutions and drivers, disk backup, disk media, etc.
The big question for Goel is to spot the right storage solutions, which do not disrupt the existing framework, but ease data management and can absorb future data growth.
The Big Questions
Can Goel find a data storage backup and recovery solution which is cost-effective, consolidated and which will increase efficiency? What kind of functionalities does he need to address his requirements?
What kind of business benefits can Goel expect by deploying data storage protection tools? What would be the RoI and cost reductions? What budget does he need to allocate for investment?
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