Managing data is a real challenge, especially considering that most enterprises increase their data load by 30 percent each year. The key to successfully protecting, optimizing, managing and securing your data is to implement tried and true best practices. This series of reports provides strategies for storing, managing and protecting your company's most crucial assets amidst constant change and thinning budgets.
Data Protection
To keep ahead
of rampant data
growth, most
companies have
developed a strategy
for organizing the
information they create.
Unfortunately, most attempts at "data classification" don't go deep enough, leaving some data assets unprotected while others are over-protected. This first report in the Sun Storage Strategy series explores the myths and realities of data classification, identifies seven key steps for getting a data classification initiative off to a good start, and shares best practices for controlling an ever-changing data environment.
An inefficient storage
environment increases
operating and capital
costs, and places a silent,
relentless drain on profits.
This third report in the
Sun Storage Strategy
series identifies hidden storage-related expenses, explores five recommendations for optimizing the storage environment to control costs, and presents key considerations for conducting a full assessment of the storage environment. It also defines the four levels of "tiered" storage, and describes how a bellwether of the insurance industry was able to drive costs out of its operation by optimizing its storage environment.
In the digital age,
data security breaches
can happen at a speed
and on a scale
unimaginable just a
few years ago. This
second report in the
Sun Storage Strategy series explores the concept of "systemic security", a pervasive methodology for embedding security and compliance controls throughout the IT architecture. The report addresses the five guiding principles of systemic security, discusses the most common approaches to data encryption, and previews the four phases of transformation that every company can anticipate when moving from a traditional data environment to a systemically secure, compliant IT architecture.
Every large company
must cope with a
storage environment
that grows larger each
year. This fourth report
in the Sun Storage Strategy
series explores how outsourcing part of the storage environment can keep the costs and challenges of storage management under control. The report identifies the four steps that every company must take when moving to a managed storage environment, discusses key considerations for working with a third-party vendor, highlights ten IT tasks that are often good candidates for outsourcing, and explains the difference between outsourcing and selective sourcing.
Contact your local Sun sales representative representative to learn how you can begin to maximize your IT investment, improve compliance, reduce risk, adapt to business change and experience fewer unplanned and expensive IT outages.
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