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Kathleen Martin
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In today’s data-driven economy, technology is front and centre, with data being an organisation’s most critical asset, giving it a competitive edge if used, harnessed, and leveraged properly. Data enables organisations to predict customer behaviour, informs and guides corporate strategy and can also help drive efficiencies within the business.
Over the years, modern enterprises have witnessed multiple technology shifts in their daily environments, having evolved from the mainframe era to the cloud-based server era, to the virtual era and then to integrated appliances. Now we are in an era of microservices, containers and software-as-a-service (SaaS), with the latter squarely outpacing traditional applications.
While these new ways of innovation have brought great benefits to organisations – enabling them to adapt, become more agile and transform – it has also brought a significant set of challenges. Many of these environments have particular solutions that manage and protect them, resulting in pockets of data being protected in very different ways. Ultimately, this creates silos of data within the environment, which are fragmented and very hard to manage.
Increased complexity
Managing a legacy environment with new evolutionary workloads coming into the ecosystem is complex and as complexity increases, so does the security risk. As the security surface continues to evolve, so does the possibility of a significant data breach. So, while organisations get the benefits of this technology evolution, it is very important that they are aware of the security challenges that could come with it.
Continue reading: https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/future-proofing-it-environments-with-intelligent-data-management-solutions-2022-09-08
Over the years, modern enterprises have witnessed multiple technology shifts in their daily environments, having evolved from the mainframe era to the cloud-based server era, to the virtual era and then to integrated appliances. Now we are in an era of microservices, containers and software-as-a-service (SaaS), with the latter squarely outpacing traditional applications.
While these new ways of innovation have brought great benefits to organisations – enabling them to adapt, become more agile and transform – it has also brought a significant set of challenges. Many of these environments have particular solutions that manage and protect them, resulting in pockets of data being protected in very different ways. Ultimately, this creates silos of data within the environment, which are fragmented and very hard to manage.
Increased complexity
Managing a legacy environment with new evolutionary workloads coming into the ecosystem is complex and as complexity increases, so does the security risk. As the security surface continues to evolve, so does the possibility of a significant data breach. So, while organisations get the benefits of this technology evolution, it is very important that they are aware of the security challenges that could come with it.
Continue reading: https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/future-proofing-it-environments-with-intelligent-data-management-solutions-2022-09-08
