There has been such a joke on the Internet - "The furthest distance in the world is not life and death, but we are together, but you are playing with your mobile phone with your head down."
Nowadays, the "head down" has become a social disease, and the mobile phone has almost become an organ of our body. Every morning when we open our eyes, the first object we pick up must be the mobile phone; before going to bed at night, the last object we put down must also be is a cell phone.
Indeed, when the performance of mobile phones becomes more and more powerful and functions become more and more intelligent, our daily necessities of life, work, life and entertainment are inseparable from mobile phones. The role of mobile phones is no longer a tool for communication, but an indispensable personal assistant. . Statistics show that in 2017, the penetration rate of mobile phones in China exceeded 102.5 units per 100 people for the first time.
However, behind the high penetration rate of mobile phones, the issue of data protection is extremely worrying.
How many people around you have experienced personal information leakage? How many people have ever said GoodBye with their precious data because their mobile phone was damaged or lost? How many people regret not having backup after data loss? Although there are various cloud backup methods, how many people find it troublesome and do not operate it?
As mobile phones become more and more popular, memory becomes larger and more data is stored, data protection becomes more and more important. If you are a deep mobile phone user, act quickly and add a "golden bell" to your data!
Enterprise data protection should not be an afterthought
As mobile phone data becomes more and more important, data protection should become a concern of every mobile phone user; as enterprise data becomes more and more critical, enterprise data protection should also become the top priority of enterprise strategy .
Compared with personal data in mobile phones, corporate data is much more critical. Once corporate data is damaged or lost, the loss to the company cannot be described as "distressed".
The "Cost of a Data Breach 2017" report shows that globally, the average loss of data to a company is $141; if the industry operates critical data, the loss will be even higher , such as the loss of data in the education industry. Costs a whopping $246/bar.
In addition to direct economic losses, data loss will also bring immeasurable indirect losses to enterprises , such as a decline in customer confidence, a weakening of company credibility, a decline in industry reputation, and public panic due to data loss or leakage.
Today, more and more companies have embarked on the pace of digital transformation. If companies cannot obtain data when they need it most, then digital transformation will become empty talk. Therefore, enterprises need to find suitable solutions to achieve higher reliability, availability and security of enterprise data .
However, just as "ideas are beautiful, reality is skinny", a large number of enterprises will encounter some thorny problems when carrying out data protection:
First, data inflation
IDC predicts that by 2025, the world's data will grow to 163ZB - 10 times more than the data generated in 2016. As data grows significantly, people will increasingly rely on its accuracy and availability, as well as its proper protection, to meet a wide variety of commercial, legal and regulatory requirements.
The rapid growth of data means that enterprises need to increase the corresponding hardware and software for data storage and protection, IT infrastructure tends to be complex, and data is increasingly difficult to manage and protect.
Second, system heterogeneity
Enterprises may choose different data protection methods at different stages of development, some based on hardware, some based on software, some based on security tools, and some based on data management framework.
In the long run, enterprises have to face a dizzying "hodgepodge of data" and be responsible for multiple heterogeneous data protection methods. These heterogeneous data protection systems are difficult to manage in a unified manner, resulting in low data protection efficiency.
Third, the infrastructure is complex
同样，企业在发展中往往还会采用异构的硬件基础架构，特别是传统企业用户，可能拥有大量旧有硬件资产，小型机、不同品牌和年代的服务器存储等硬件；还可能为了提升业务的弹性而选择超融合基础架构，亦或者选择了不同形式的云环境，公有云、私有云和混合云。
企业基础架构变得越来越复杂，这意味着需要保护的数据可能位于各种不同的应用程序、设备或基础架构资源池中，可能在本地，可能在云中，可能在各种异构的硬件设施中，其复杂度可想而知。
IT以简单为美，我想没有一家企业不希望能够以更加简洁的手段来更加高效且有效的保护数据。那么，企业应当如何选择有效的数据保护解决方案？
让数据自动加上“金钟罩”
实际上，数据保护上不应过多地依赖于人力，整个数据保护框架应该由自动化技术来塑造和驱动。企业则需要采用现代化的工具，部署一个集中化的监管模式，以便符合服务等级协议的要求，从而在所有时间保护好所有动态和静止的数据。
数据保护自动化技术的另一个重要益处是：商业用户能够确保数据得到充分的保护，有效地防范人为误操作、系统故障或组织外部的攻击尝试。
另一方面，为更加高效的保护数据，IT决策者不宜采用来自多个厂商的“拼盘”技术和架构“大杂烩”，而应当寻找具有卓越的技术和清晰的长期路线图的合作伙伴和完善的数据保护解决方案来保护企业数据。
Dell EMC正是一个能够提供自动化数据保护解决方案的理想合作伙伴。在数据存储领域，Dell EMC的“江湖地位”已经毋庸置疑，而在数据保护领域，Dell EMC同样具有多年积累和笑傲群雄的“武林绝学”。
Dell EMC具备全面的数据保护解决方案，从数据保护软件家族，到Data Domain数据保护一体机系列，无论企业是本地IT基础架构、虚拟化环境还是私有云、公有云和混合云环境，具有丰富产品和强大功能的Dell EMC数据保护解决方案都能为企业数据加上一层无缝高效的“金钟罩”。
Among them, the Dell EMC data protection software family can provide enterprises with unified data protection, help enterprises achieve centralized and automated management, and accelerate the backup and recovery of the overall IT environment. The Dell EMC data protection software family includes Enterprise Edition, for Backup Edition, for App Edition, for VMware Edition, and for Archive Edition, providing a wealth of choices for enterprises with different application requirements and environments.
Compared with competing products, Dell EMC data protection software is at the leading level in terms of cost-effectiveness, computing efficiency, and storage efficiency . ESG Lab test results show that Dell EMC data protection software can save up to 67.96% of monthly costs on in-cloud data protection infrastructure, and can reduce backup repository resource requirements by 70.8% through efficient use of AWS S3 storage.
In addition to the data protection software family, Dell EMC also has a killer in the field of data protection - the Data Domain all-in-one series . Data Domain is a flash-based, cloud-enabled, integrated, purpose-built solution with a broad product line and deep technical depth, including advanced data deduplication and comprehensive data protection software product mix.
Data Domain solutions provide advanced flexibility, performance, reliability and scalability to protect data across all workloads in any environment . In addition, Dell EMC data protection solutions effectively control important cost factors. According to the different environments and needs of users, Dell EMC provides DD3300, DD6300, DD6800, DD9300, DD9800 and other series products.
ESG believes that the deduplication technology of Dell EMC Data Domain systems supports best-in-class data protection and delivers significant economic benefits, including reduced network bandwidth usage, reduced data center footprint, faster backups and savings in storage capital expenditures.
TechTarget's storage procurement survey for the storage professional community shows that Dell EMC has the highest overall Transaction Index score of the seven storage brands tracked by TechTarget. The Transaction Index looks at 4 different statistics for storage buyers: number of wins, number of finalists, conversion rate of finalists and share of finalists, and Dell EMC is the second-best storage brand more than twice.
Dell EMC makes data protection easy
In the process of digital transformation of enterprises, data is a valuable asset of enterprises, and efficient and effective data protection is the cornerstone for enterprises to successfully realize digital transformation . Therefore, data protection should not be an afterthought, and should take precautions and adopt more automated and modern means.
Dell EMC offers a wide variety of data protection solutions that integrate advanced hardware, software and services to help organizations modernize their IT frameworks . Dell EMC solutions also help organizations reap other benefits, such as reducing costs, increasing speed and efficiency, and ensuring enterprise data is always available and secure.
Choice is more important than effort, and with Dell EMC data protection solutions, the tough problems in enterprise data protection are easily solved.
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