According to the recent findings by IDC, has found many enterprises are still struggling to control their critical data, with two-thirds of enterprises failing to meet best practice standards for data control.
Actifio’s Virtual Data Pipeline technology provides a holistic approach to data management that enables large organizations to capture data directly from production applications, manage a single “golden master” copy of that data in their most secure environment, and then use virtual copies to maintain both accessibility and control.
The use of a copy data virtualization platform severely limits the proliferation and availability of physical data copies, when data is both at rest and being moved or migrated between production and non-production environments, generations of hardware, data centers or cloud infrastructure. Most importantly, copy data virtualization decreases the number of targets available to those with harmful intent.
Keeping enterprise data both safe and accessible is a complex balancing act made all the more difficult by the geometric growth rate of production data. When coupled with conventional data protection programs and a siloed approach to copy data creation, the result is an unintended and uncontrolled proliferation of “rogue copies” of sensitive data.
This data is difficult to keep track of, let alone protect. Organizations and individual users dissatisfied with the responsiveness of infrastructure and operations can often lead to ‘shadow IT’ operations that contain such rogue copies. Each added physical copy increases the “surface area of attack” for this data, creating additional opportunities for the wrong people to get access to confidential or personally identifiable information of clients.
Phil Goodwin, research director, Storage Systems and Software of IDC said, “Our research clearly identified two major challenges faced by IT executives – the copy data proliferation problem and the copy data access problem. Copy data is costly, and introduces risk when it needs to be accessed. Organizations need solutions that can automate copy data management and subsequently reduce risk and cost in the enterprise and public sector environments; manual efforts are simply insufficient”
By 2018, IDC estimates copy data will be cost IT organizations $50.63 billion and currently consumes up to 60 percent of the IT storage hardware and infrastructure budget.
“The truth is most companies are have no idea how many copies of a given data set are floating around in their infrastructure or in the cloud,” said Ash Ashutosh, CEO of Actifio. “If you don’t know how many copies you have you don’t know where they are, and if you don’t know where they are you can’t tell who has access to them. Actifio gives customers a single system of record to take control of their secondary data, and more and more CIOs are taking a proactive approach to reduce the threat of exposure.”
