Extending the Reach of Enterprise Backup to the Desktop and Beyond

From SMBs to Fortune 500 enterprises, business efficiency is predicated upon

the ability to create, control, and exchange information. The amount of business

information that an company accrues increases over time, and may expand to

include classes of historic company data, legal/financial data, marketing/sales

data, and current/future product data, among many others.

However, while the sheer volume of business data continually increases, its

core value rests not in its mere existence but on how accessible it is to

internal and external employees. Even the most strategic business document is

useless unless it is immediately and easily available. A business's

operational efficiency, then, depends on the accessibility of its strategic

business information assets.

Centralized data storage provided secure, single points of information

storage with multiple points of access by employees. Eventually, the maturity of

network-based computing technologies afforded a rise in localized devices,

including personal computers (PCs), network-attached storage devices, and

related peripherals that essentially changed the structure of data storage and

the nature of information access. Though the rise of distributed storage

solutions empowered employees to more easily create and contain their business

information, the process dramatically increased the amount of data stored and

typically proceeded without consideration for the company's long-term

strategic information goals.

This white paper discusses about the challenges of providing strategic

storage for all enterprise data and how central repositories play a key role in

providing solutions to the same.

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Extending the Reach of Enterprise Backup to

the Desktop and Beyond

Source: Sageza