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Chapter 1: Defining Data Loss
Although user and operator errors account for more than 32 percent of per-
manent data loss, cyber-crime and computer-virus attacks are the fastest-
growing cause of business disruption.
Organizations put challenging demands on their information — not only
integrity, but rapid, secure, and continual availability. Although server and
storage hardware continue to improve, those goals are harder to achieve as
IT infrastructures grow more complex — and add new points of potential fail-
ure and vulnerability.
Watertight data-protection and security strategies are critical for every orga-
nization. Nonstop, 24-hour operations require some heavy-duty capabilities:
✓ Robust, scalable storage management
✓ Secure backup and disaster recovery
✓ Protection of data from desktop to data center
✓ Effective management of a wide range of environments from a single
location
No wonder the cost of management, for both security and storage, is escalat-
ing. The IT infrastructure not only has to store more information than ever
before, but also to secure, log, and discover where the most sensitive elec-
tronic information is hiding — in an environment that often isn’t equipped to
handle those tasks.
Gone are the days when data lived peaceably in the data center and everyone
who had access worked in the same building. These days, the data — and the
risks — can be found all over the map (Figure 1-1 shows what a typical orga-
nization has to deal with). Every stage of the business, any business, has the
potential for data loss, data leaks, and data breaches.
As corporations expand their business operations globally, into different
geography and various time zones, continuous availability of e-commerce
services is expected. E-commerce is a blessing and a curse to business:
✓ It makes communication to customers easy to open up new avenues for
sales and marketing
✓ It puts pressure on IT to minimize the risks associated with managing
the exchange and storage of data.
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