Enhanced scalability and flexibility are two of the reasons why cloud services are key pillars in every IT strategy today. However, this new computing paradigm creates a major headache regarding data protection. The very nature of distributed computing means that data is spread across various platforms, services and locations.
Hybrid headaches
Rapid growth and expansion create new challenges. By adopting multiple systems for multiple vendors, many businesses experience a significant increase in operational complexity. This results in inefficiency, rising costs and increased risk of security vulnerabilities.
Your data protection responsibilities don’t end at the corporate firewall. On-premise or in the cloud, you must ensure data is backed up and recoverable. Depending on your data protection technology choices, this requirement could increase operational complexity further.
Simplify and standardise
As well as creating new challenges, cloud platforms offer new solutions. Cloud backup technologies provide the same location-agnostic functionality as other hybrid cloud services.
This means you can auto-scale capacity as your estate grows, never again ‘running out of space.’ Perhaps more importantly still, you can simplify and standardise backup and recovery routines using a single console. In an emergency, data can be recovered from and to any location, allowing you to resume operations faster. And because cloud backups are stored offsite, you meet one of the key goals for capturing and protecting archives.
What have you got?
One of the biggest hurdles to designing a hybrid cloud-ready backup strategy is knowing what you have and where it is located. How much data is stored in cloud services? What kind of data is it? How can it be captured and backed up?
Answering these questions is a critical first step towards strengthening your data protection capabilities. One option to accelerate this process is the Fujitsu Infrastructure and Data Discovery Service. More than simply showing you what you have, the service also helps you better understand your ecosystem from a strategic business perspective.
Ecosystem choice is critical
Simplification and standardisation can be assured when choosing a tightly integrated cloud ecosystem. Fujitsu works alongside industry-leading partners to provide a catalogue of proven, unified tools to enhance data protection for their customers. Net app Cloud Volumes, Veritas NetBackup and Commvault Complete Data Protection all work together seamlessly to protect client data against loss, theft and corruption. To learn more about the Fujitsu ecosystem and how to better protect your hybrid cloud operating environment, please give the WTL team a call.