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Tape is Dead Throw Everything into the Cloud

Posted on March 8, 2019 by George Crump

The cloud is a valuable tool that almost every data center should leverage. It is, however, just that, a tool. The cloud is not the be all end all answer to all of IT’s problems. It can solve many of…

Tagged with: Archive, Cyber Attack, Data Privacy, Disaster recovery, Flash, Malware, NAS, Object Storage, Ransomware, Retention, Tape, Unstructured data
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Adopting Value-Based Data Governance to Meet Modern Data Privacy Needs

Posted on February 28, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Data privacy is a universal concern for enterprises, and not only because of the rise of regulations such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). By and large, consumers have higher expectations in terms of how businesses are…

Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, Data modernization, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Hitachi, IoT, Replication, Virtual Storage, Virtualization
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Solving the Right to be Forgotten Problem with Intelligent Unstructured Data Management

Posted on February 26, 2019 by Krista Macomber

The European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has contributed to an overall greater awareness among both consumers and enterprises of the value of data. As discussed in a previous Storage Switzerland blog, the value of and requirement for…

Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, Cloud, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Data Retention, GDPR, Retention, Unstructured data
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Modernizing Data Management for a SaaS-driven World – Odaseva Briefing Note

Posted on February 6, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Applications such as Salesforce.com are becoming increasingly data-driven, as businesses seek to harvest and analyze as much data as possible to drive customer satisfaction, maximize productivity of employees, and make more informed business decisions. These applications are delivered through a…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, CCPA, Cloud, Data Privacy, Encryption, GDPR, IaaS, iPaaS, Odaseva, PaaS, SaaS
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How to Evolve From Unstructured Data Protection to Unstructured Data Management

Posted on January 15, 2019 by George Crump

A recent report from Igneous, “The State of Unstructured Management 2018,” indicates that most IT professionals are not satisfied with their ability to meet organizational expectations about the backup, recovery, and retention of their unstructured data sets. The value that…

Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Copy Data, Data Privacy, Igneous, Migration, NAS, Ransomware, Replication, ROI, UDM, Unstructured data
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What’s Hot in 2019 – Data Privacy

Posted on January 10, 2019 by George Crump

Data privacy came sharply into view in 2018 when in May the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect. The data protection components of the regulation are challenging enough, but GDPR added a new wrinkle, “the…

Tagged with: CCPA, Cloud, Data Privacy, file sync and share, GDPR, Hot2019, Unstructured data
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SlideShare: Designing Storage Architectures for Data Privacy, Compliance and Governance

Posted on December 20, 2018 by George Crump

Managing data is about more than managing capacity growth; organizations today need to adhere to increasingly strict data privacy, compliance and governance regulations. Privacy regulations like GDPR and California’s Consumer Privacy Act place new expectations on organizations that require them…

Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, Data modernization, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Hitachi, IoT, Replication, Virtual Storage, Virtualization
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The US Version of GDPR Will Be a Nightmare

Posted on December 17, 2018 by George Crump

In a few years, U.S. based IT professionals may look back at the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and wish they had something as easy for their data governance regulation. California’s Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is part of…

Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, CCPA, Cloud, Data Privacy, GDPR, Retention, Unstructured data
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Can Copy Data Management Replace Backup?

Posted on December 11, 2018 by George Crump

Backup makes a copy of primary data on a secondary storage tier. It then tries to isolate that copy so that it can’t be changed either from external forces like ransomware or internal influences like users. For the most part…

Tagged with: Analytics, CCPA, Cloud, Data modernization, Data Privacy, Data Protection, GDPR, Hitachi, IoT, Replication, Virtual Storage, Virtualization
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What is the Data Governance Gap?

Posted on December 10, 2018 by George Crump

In the past most data related regulations focused on data protection and disaster recovery. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California’s Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as well as other soon-to-come regulations, continue to have data protection and…