FEATURE: CLOUD MANAGEMENT
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THE FIRST SET OF
CHALLENGES FOR
CUSTOMERS AND
CIOS IS . . . THEY
DON’T KNOW
WHERE TO START,
WHICH DATA TO
PICK, AND HOW TO
MOVE IT THERE.
Johnny Karam, VP for Emerging Markets, Veritas
comes to deploying new applications and
managing workloads.
The survey shows that only 1%
organisations will not be adopting cloud
over the next two years.
However, the study also reveals that
significant misconceptions exist on the
responsibility for data management,
with 69% of organisations wrongfully
believing data protection, data privacy and
compliance are the responsibility of the
cloud service provider.
“The first set of challenges for customers
and CIOs is they want to move into the
cloud and they want to consume it,” said
Johnny Karam.
“However, they don’t know where to start,
which data to pick, and how to move it there.
“The second set of challenges is the multi-
cloud complexity. It means that customers
already have data in their data centre that
they need to manage in applications.
Karam said the next challenge was
controlling the costs of growing data and
those associated with storing that data and
managing it.
“Today at Veritas, we have a unique
approach. We call it 360 Data Management,
where we practically help the customers
protect the data. Also, we help them get
global visibility because that data could be
anywhere,” said Karam.
“We help them get visibility because once
they get visibility into the data, they can
then start making decisions on what to do
with that data, what to keep, what to delete,
what to do long-term and then they are
smarter on management.
“Then because they have visibility, we
help them comply with regulations, global
regulations like GDPR for example. We
help them with compliance and then we
work with them to help them keep the high
availability of the data.
“They have applications that are in the cloud,
like their HR systems and what have you. “Then there is the migration of the data to
consider, be it within their data centres, or
be it between the data centre and multiple
clouds like the Azure Cloud or AWS Cloud.”
“They start realising that their critical data is
actually scattered all over the place between
the local data centre, service providers and
the cloud. So having the ability to manage
this multi-cloud approach and getting the
visibility and control is the second challenge.” The final challenge is helping customers
with software-defined storage. Veritas will
concentrate on the visibility of data and
classification and focus customers on what
data is important. “This is software-defined
storage that helps them manage their estate
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in a better way and helps them manage the
cost because you’re not treating all data
equally,” said Karam.
“This is really the high level of the 360 Data
Management that currently, we’re helping
customers with.”
Last year Veritas Technologies unveiled
the Integrated Classification Engine, a
new technology that delivers powerful
intelligence into data risks on-premises and
in the cloud.
Organisations struggle with gaining visibility
and insight into their fastest growing data:
unstructured data. This type of data, including
emails, documents and image files, exposes
organisations to potentially harmful security
vulnerabilities and unintended personally
identifiable information (PII) leaks.
This problem is expected to intensify as
enterprise data growth has accelerated to a
rate of 49% year-over-year, according to the
2017 Veritas Data Genomics Index.
The Integrated Classification Engine enables
organisations to quickly scan and tag data
to ensure that sensitive or risky information
is properly managed and protected. This
innovative technology provides broad
visibility into PII and helps companies meet
compliance regulations that require discrete
retention policies be implemented and
enforced across the organisation’s entire data
estate, regardless of where that data lives. n
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