{"id":299146,"date":"2019-03-13T12:59:14","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T10:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=299146"},"modified":"2019-03-13T16:18:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T14:18:08","slug":"why-traditional-data-backup-is-on-life-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/299146-why-traditional-data-backup-is-on-life-support.html","title":{"rendered":"Why traditional data backup is on life support"},"content":{"rendered":"

Traditional data backup is on “life support”, and companies need to take steps to “ride the data wave”.<\/p>\n

This is according to Johan Scheepers, Director of Systems Engineering MESAT at Commvault.<\/p>\n

Scheepers was speaking at the\u00a0MyBroadband 2019 Data Storage, Backup and Recovery Conference, where he detailed how data is growing rapidly in terms of volumes and value.<\/p>\n

The reason traditional backup is on life support is due to a number of reasons, said Scheepers – highlighting five key areas.<\/p>\n

Velocity of change<\/h3>\n

The velocity of change in the world of data is rapid, with 90% of the data available today created in the past two years.<\/p>\n

These volumes will continue to grow going forward and by 2020, 1.7MB of data will be created every second for each person on earth.<\/p>\n

Scheepers said this rapid change must be managed by companies.<\/p>\n

Increased value<\/h3>\n

Data is a valuable commodity, akin to crude oil, and this means it must be protected appropriately.<\/p>\n

This is especially the case for data which is needed to keep business operations going.<\/p>\n

Diverse infrastructure<\/h3>\n

Diverse infrastructure, applications, and workloads have created gaps in talent, skills, and time, said Scheepers.<\/p>\n

This can lead to silos in individual departments, which can create internal barriers in an organisation.<\/p>\n

Increased recovery readiness<\/h3>\n

A very important factor is that companies need increased recovery readiness to respond to threats.<\/p>\n

Scheepers said that when data centres go down or a company’s data is not accessible, it can lead to the companies themselves going down and business functions ceasing.<\/p>\n

This downtime can lead to massive financial losses, and good recovery solutions are needed to get companies back online as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

Data privacy<\/h3>\n

Data privacy requirements, like GDPR and POPI, impact how companies store their data and the rules they have to follow when doing so.<\/p>\n

Besides privacy requirements from governments, a company’s intellectual property is a set of data which should be accessible by the organisation.<\/p>\n

60% of companies’ intellectual property currently sits on laptops, however, not in a data centre, said Scheepers – which can lead to issues down the line.<\/p>\n

Take control of the data<\/h3>\n

Scheepers said there are five steps IT professionals can follow to take control of their data.<\/p>\n