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Data Protection Management: A Good Fit For SMEs

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Backup failure and performance rank at the top of the list of issues that continue to perplex storage administrators on a daily basis. For many, DPM (data protection management) programs that yield users a better understanding of their backup and recovery environments are one way to deal with these concerns, as well as with others. DPM products provide reports on backup operations across an enterprise. They report across multiple vendors’ backup products and can alert management to backup failures that put data protection at risk and may infringe upon compliance regulations. They can also balance backup loads across drives in a tape library.

While some SMEs have expressed uncertainty about whether DPM solutions are as appropriate for them as they are for larger operations, size, in this case, seemingly doesn’t matter. “DPM is absolutely a fit for any company that has more than a few computers,” says Greg Schulz, founder and senior analyst at StorageIO. “Even small companies store a huge amount of valuable data, and the right DPM solution allows that data to be managed proactively, not reactively.”

Arun Taneja, founder and consulting analyst at Taneja Group, corroborates Schulz’s comments, adding that regulations, including Sarbanes-Oxley, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Basel II, and HIPAA, "all have varying focuses on data protection that ultimately require enterprises of all sizes to be assured of protection, not just confident. Compliance-driven assurance must be documented and auditable to protect enterprises from fines and penalties, and DPM is the catalyst.”

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