With so many vulnerabilities around us, data protection remains a top priority for organizations as they face the realization that proactive steps must be taken to ensure data is highly available, accessible and resilient as it continues to grow at unprecedented rates. Along with the acceleration of data growth, one of the major impediments to efficiency and budgets are inefficient data protection systems.

It's almost becoming clichéd, but data as we know it, is growing at an unprecedented rate and having the right storage resource manager is now essential to your business. Visibility into storage environments is becoming more challenging due to the increasing complexities and escalating user demands.

A recent Frost and Sullivan survey ranks storage as one of IT leaders' top concerns due to extreme growth and changing needs. I’ve highlighted some key takeaways from the report which emphasize why Flash technology is growing in demand when it comes to addressing today’s storage needs. 

All-Flash technology used to be all about raw performance. It had been designed to address issues with traditional applications that were bound by latency and throughput. This was not mainstream, but rather applied to niche environments. It was an expensive solution but justified compared to the alternative cost of rewriting an application or deploying massive arrays of spinning disk. In many cases, low latency could not be consistently achieved with disk-based solutions.

Let's face it: Data is growing at an astounding rate and companies are in needs of new ways to utilize their storage more efficiently more than ever. They need to be able to maximize their existing pool of resources while keeping costs at a minimum. With so many options available now, the question remains: what is the best solution for your organization?

As we close off 2015, there is no doubt that data protection will continue to be at the top of list of priorities for businesses going into the new year. In today’s blog, I’ll explore the challenges CIOs are faced with in the data center and how data protection solutions can not only save time and costs but provide competitive advantages to organizations that have executed well on their plan.

Let's face it: Data is growing at a rapid rate and companies are increasingly needing ways to utilize their storage more efficiently by maximizing their existing pool of resources while keeping costs at a minimum. With so many options available now, the question remains: what is the best solution for your organization?

In our May 2014 blog, we reviewed the benefits of various back up alternatives (cloud vs. on-premise) and discussed the pros and cons of each solution. Since then, cloud platforms have continued to expand and offer an increasingly viable option for a growing set of enterprise workloads. 

Most organizations today, both large and small, rely on their information technology systems for business to the extent that data loss and system failure would be devastating. To alleviate these risks, organizations have invested in data backup systems with the expectation that by simply performing backups, their data will be safe.

The data that enterprises are acquiring, managing, and storing is growing exponentially mainly due to unstructured data – emails, spreadsheets, text, graphics, video, audio – to ensure compliance, improve productivity, and create new revenue. These data streams are exploding at an estimated annual growth rate of 80 percent as per Gartner’s IT Market Clock for Storage from 2011. IDC also expects the amount of storage capacity deployed to store the explosion of new content will increase sixfold in the next three years (stated in a 2012), exacerbating the challenges around data management, protection, and preservation.