The Future of Data Protection?

Enterprise data protection systems have to be reliable, cost effective and use as little extra storage space as necessary. They also must provide quick access to the most current mission critical data and must support the enterprise's own specific set of applications. According to Mehran Hadipour, the author of a recently published article on CRMDaily, entitled Addressing the Challenges of Data Protection, much of the current technology available falls short of these requirements. Hadipour, a product manager with California-based data protection system developer Kashya, says the most widely deployed data protection solutions, like off-site back-up tapes, often provide less than up-to-date protection of data and they don't enable rapid recovery. Other types of systems that feature volume mirroring, host-based replication, storage-based replication and database replication offer only limited functionality, are platform specific or are just plain too costly. In the article, Hadipour describes how the next generation of data protection appliances will overcome these deficiencies.

"Clearly, what is needed is technology that delivers maximum data protection with no data loss, that is host and storage-platform independent, that can understand database linkages and dependencies, that will not increase management complexity, and that will adapt to an organization's changing needs -- in a cost-effective manner," he writes in the article.

According to Hadipour, enterprise decision makers should be looking for the following attributes in future data protection/data storage systems:

Universal data protection for all open server and storage platforms on the network;

Autonomous management that adjusts to WAN bandwidth or application demand changes dynamically; and

Application awareness in which the system recognizes and accommodates for the unique needs of a typical application;

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