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The amount of data being generated is accelerating. It comes in new forms and formats but data has a lifecycle. How are you managing yours?
Do you and your employees know what data you have available and where to find it? Build a data catalog.
Data stored in isolated databases and applications are referred to as data Silos. A great deal of insight can be revealed from these silos.
Data has a lifecycle like anything else. Data is created, has a use and eventually is no longer required and should be archived or deleted.
The source of where to find any data sources in your business should be the data catalog. A single point where employees can find the data they need.
Classifying data is the first step on the road to securing your data and your business.
Using AI can speed up the analysing and tagging of files on your network. Each file should have a category ad sensitivity label.
Policies dictate how files are treated based on their tags and labels. Policies should also be created for emails to ensure data is not leaked.
Your data is your responsibility and enforcing policies can help protect your business from legal and reputational issues.
Creating and storing data is only half the story. Once you have it you need to protect it!
Encryption is your last line of defence against data loss. Disks can be encrypted but so can files that are being sent or transferred.
Data governance is the data management principle that focuses on the quality, security and availability of an organisations data.
Data gets left on trains in the physical world but in the virtual world we have a few more options to prevent that becoming a big problem.
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Creating data is great but you need somewhere to put it. It also needs to be highly available.
Blob and file share storage are scalable, affordable and can be the perfect solution for multiple storage scenarios for your business.
Can be expensive but for on premise private cloud and virtual environments its perfect. Also allows shared drives for failover clusters.
Network attached storage is a cheaper alternative to SAN storage. Great for local file storage but not useful for sharing drives for clusters.
You need at least 3 copies of your data with 2 being on different media offsite and 1 offsite.
Knowing your RPO and RTO can help direct your backup strategy ensuring minimal data loss during a disaster.
Having an immutable copy of your data is imperative to protect against data loss and to maintain integrity.
Without a test restoration of a backup file, it is just a file and not a backup. Do not wait until a disaster.
