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The Agile Business

Intelligent data management is critical to business success

Information is your organization's most important asset. That's why intelligent day-to-day data management is critical.

Data most vital to mission-critical applications should get the highest priority for backing up and the greatest precedence for recovery. Unfortunately, identifying this data and ensuring its successful backup and recovery can be difficult.

This article addresses the challenges you face as you work to effectively back up and recover data. I'll cover primary pain points and explain how to efficiently solve them with the right application-driven data management (ADDM) practices.

Challenges of Ensuring Recoverability

As data volumes increase and budgets tighten, improving efficiencies and cutting costs through application and infrastructure automation and centralization is vital. As you work to ensure your business users always have the information they need, your ability to guarantee the agility of your datacenter is mission critical. But, agility isn't just about responding to change quickly and efficiently - it's also about sensing change.

Virtually no organization will be agile if its datacenter and infrastructure aren't. What's more, agility should be measured in a way that makes sense to your business. Considerations include the time and costs necessary to:

• Deploy a new service
• Roll out a new capability
• Eliminate an old service
• React to changing business requirements

Additionally, improving agility requires asking questions such as: Could this event have been predicted? What can I change to sense this kind of incident before it happens?

Today's IT teams need more agile and flexible technology solutions - especially as compliance regulations grow increasingly more demanding, disaster recovery becomes progressively more difficult, management costs escalate and storage use declines.

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