White Papers for Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Secure Optimized Data Protection for Remote Offices

Symantec

This white paper discusses how many organizations are struggling with the massive changes in data storage requirements that have transpired over the last decade. The almost exponential growth of business critical data from email, e-commerce, and electronic systems shows no sign of decreasing. With relatively new data types such as voice and video now in use, enterprise storage administrators will soon have to manage petabytes of data.

According to a recent study by the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California at Berkeley, the world produces between 1 and 2 exabytes of unique information per year, which is roughly 250 megabytes for every man, woman, and child on earth. An exabyte is a billion gigabytes and printed documents of all kinds comprise only .003 percent of the total. Magnetic storage is by far the largest medium for storing information and is the most rapidly growing, with shipped hard-drive capacity doubling every year. Magnetic storage is becoming the universal medium for information storage.

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