Data Protection Solutions
IT organizations today face many challenges to existing data protection capabilities from a variety of sources. Corporate information growth averages anywhere between 50% and 80%. Data storage and backup systems strain to meet reasonable backup windows and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for information recovery. Other corporate governance initiatives such as: data encryption, data archiving and eDiscovery, disaster recovery, business continuity planning, remote office backups, and data immutability — all pressure current data security and continuous data protection strategies.
These new requirements can lead to bolt-on data protection and backup solutions or overly complex configurations utilizing available or legacy resources. Furthermore, given the overwhelming demands on IT, data protection schemes fall slowly but surely out of currency. Even well architected environments, when deprived of consistent attention, fail to meet the current needs of the business. This gap between required and actual data security protection levels is not easily visible to decision makers. This results in data protection services and strategies inappropriately architected to provide comprehensive and continuous data protection capabilities in a timely or flexible manner, and often require Herculean efforts from the IT organization to remain operationally effective.
To resolve current data encryption and protection problems or to effectively craft data security strategies requires a detailed understanding of the current data protection environment and must also consider a company's strategic goals, both technical and business. This understanding is ideally developed through the gathering and analysis of both quantitative and qualitative information.
Top 10 Factors Impacting Data Protection
- Information Growth
- Sensitive Data Inventory
- Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
- Data Archiving and Retention Policies
- Compliance
- eDiscovery
- Virtualization
- Remote Offices; Distributed Locations
- Operational Efficiencies
- Asset Utilization
Benefits of Consonus Data Protection
Consonus has a long and successful history of addressing the product lifecycle upgrade portions of our clients' key IT Infrastructure Solutions such as backup and recovery software. Many clients we work with share the same insights: "I don't want to simply upgrade my backup application and amplify my current challenges. I want to understand how I can mitigate current challenges while taking advantage of new technologies and features to address newer data security and protection requirements — and hopefully reducing my operational staff's burden."
Consonus Data Protection services provide a technology and process roadmap that considers your business requirements in the context of the current technologies employed. Data protection solutions can include improvements to current backup configuration and policies and, ideally, will provide an upgrade strategy with a focus on the availability and manageability of the resulting environment.
Recommendations for data security improvements include the use of new technical capabilities, integration with data storage and data encryption applications, and consolidation of environments. We also investigate how alternative service delivery models, such as managed services providers, might prove to be part of an effective strategy. Finally, we also investigate how a data security strategy can be leveraged for all or part of a comprehensive disaster recovery business continuity strategy.
Consonus Data Protection and Data Security Risk Assessment Results
Rather than simply upgrading your current data protection system practices, Consonus Data Protection leverages technology refresh as an opportunity to improve both the environment and the service your IT assets offer to the rest of your organization, including – potentially - your customers. The efficiencies realized by an effective Consonus Data Protection assessment of the current backup environment — canvassing corporate requirements and coupling them with state-of-the-art technologies — will more than pay for the cost of the Data Protection assessment, as well as a large portion of the eventual technology refresh.
The benefit of Consonus Data Protection Assessments have proven to be immense. Companies can expect to find a more efficient, less costly upgrade process. Also, numerous customers have realized significant reductions in capital and operational expenditures by combining architectural improvements and process improvements in their continuous data protection strategy. This is especially true in terms of investing to meet new and future requirements.
Equally important is that we can perform our Consonus Data Protection assessment in as little as two weeks. The majority of time invested is for the accurate collection of information. Consonus Data Protection streamlines and abbreviates the time to upgrade the current environment, and optimizes the new environment for operational efficiencies.
