Streamlined Data Protection Brings Data Resilience

For the enterprise, data isn’t just a technical issue but a C-suite one too. Enterprises are built on data, and that data needs to be available wherever and whenever it’s needed — no matter what. For enterprise leaders, the challenge of creating data resilience is ever increasing as the nature of data constantly evolves. Since enterprise data is often distributed amongst several platforms, managing it becomes more complex and fragmented, and the ever-present threat of bad actors and ransomware makes effective management of this data imperative. Working to streamline your data protection processes, tools, and staff can go a long way toward turning the job of data management into one that’s simpler and easier to manage.

Simplifying Data Protection in a Global Company

Streamlining your data protection processes is important for businesses of any size, but it’s arguably more important for enterprises since the sprawl, fragmentation, and sheer amount of data tends to be much larger. One way to simplify your data protection operations is to consolidate the number of tools and solutions you have to work with as much as possible. Fluidra , for example, is a global company that was looking to centralize their global data protection ecosystem and reduce their storage usage. As a multinational company, even small interruptions to Fluidra’s operations can significantly impact their bottom line, and the company relies on 24/7 access to data. To protect their data, Fluidra wanted a single solution that could support its global operations. In this company’s case, they chose Veeam Data Platform to consolidate their data protection. By finding one solution to cover their entire data center, Fluidra was able to take advantage of larger economies, increase their data recovery speeds by 100x, and reduce their storage utilization by more than 50%.

Align Data Protection Staff and Solutions: Ransomware Trends Report 2024

We surveyed 1,200 respondents — comprised of IT and security professionals, and executives — whose organizations suffered at least one ransomware attack in 2023. This report dives deep into the scale and impact that ransomware attacks can have, as well as the importance of organizational alignment during preparation and remediation stages, and technologies you should implement before recovery.

One key takeaway from the Ransomware Trends Report 2024 was how critical coordination between backup and cybersecurity tools is when remediating misalignment between IT and security teams. In fact, 63% of organizations believed a significant improvement or complete overhaul was needed between their IT and security teams. This shows that backup and cyber security teams and tools aren’t aligned in most enterprises today, and that’s a problem, because misalignment leads to increased risk of infection, ransomware attacks, and even reinfection.

New Solutions to Reduce IT Complexity

Our newest offering, Lenovo TruScale Backup with Veeam, can help users secure workloads regardless of their location and enables customers to scale their infrastructure up or down whenever they need. Flexibility is essential, particularly when you’re charged with security for a large environment. If you work more on-premises, TruScale Backup with Veeam offers a cloud like experience that can help improve backup reliability with granular, self-service virtual machine (VM) and file recovery. We also just released a new Splunk extension that allows Veeam Data Platform users to monitor the health and security status of their backup infrastructure with Splunk’s capabilities.

Data Resilience: A Powerful Reminder

Outages are a powerful reminder that preparedness is key to achieving data resilience. Although cyber recoveries have become far more common than disaster recoveries, it’s important companies continue to prep for all types of outage scenarios.

Secure backup and recovery solutions are not just an IT concern; they are a strategic imperative for any organization that wants to safeguard their future. By investing in comprehensive backup and recovery strategies, businesses can ensure they’re well-equipped to navigate the uncertainties of this digital age and maintain continuity and trust even in the face of adversity.

In practice, data resilience can mean many things, but streamlining and making your processes as efficient as possible can go a long way toward ensuring it within your own environment. If you’re interested in diving deeper into the topics discussed in this issue, check out our livestream series, Industry Insights and Tech Bites! This month we have streams dedicated to topics like ransomware trend breakdowns, how to build effective cyber incident response plans, simplifying Kubernetes deployments, and more!