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getting visibility into all this data across all
the nodes where it resides and the networks
across which it moves. Organisations are
struggling just to know where all their data is.
It’s even more challenging to be certain that
it’s recoverable in the event of an outage,
attack, loss or theft. That it’s available for
the predictive analytics that help them
gain competitive advantage and improve
business performance.
That it’s in compliance as new regulations
like GDPR, PoPI and the likes go into effect
anywhere across the globe. And that it’s
always available for services and users.
Hyper-availability, ultimately, is the holy
grail for every enterprise. Today, availability
is based on policy-based mechanisms
where data is often manually relocated
to optimise cost and performance or to
recover from a security intrusion.
Tomorrow’s availability must evolve to a
more autonomous model where the system
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reacts and adjusts automatically to any
significant changes in the behaviour of
data, apps, or users anywhere across the
enterprise. This level of automation is a big
leap from where we are today.
FEATURE: BIG DATA
towards the holy grail of intelligent data
management by ensuring data is always
protected, in compliance and available
when needed.
Skilling up for intelligence
To meet the challenges of hyper-criticality,
hyper-growth and hyper-sprawl of data,
businesses need three things – a new data
management strategy, a new approach to
data management and a new enterprise
platform to help them on their journey
In South Africa, there is a significant skills
shortage especially around Big Data.
While this is hardly unique to the country,
there needs to be a concerted effort by
enterprise and education to address the
DATA IS THE ENGINE OF DIGITAL
TRANSFORMATION, THE LIFEBLOOD
OF APPLICATIONS, THE CURRENCY OF
BUSINESS AND THE BEATING HEART OF
DIGITAL LIFE.
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