Intelligent Data Management Sanjeet Singh Dell Storage Product Group
Intelligent Data Management TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................................................ 3 DATA MANAGEMENT TODAY ............................................................................. 3 DELL VISION: IDM................................................................................................. 4 GOALS AND COMPONENTS OF IDM .................................................................. 4 SOLUTIONS .............
Intelligent Data Management Executive Summary Data has become increasingly valuable as both a business asset and as a competitive differentiator. Its intrinsic value is being acknowledged in the form of stricter government, industry, and company standards for protecting and preserving it. As a result, organizations are generating and keeping more data than ever before, and every sign indicates that data growth will only accelerate in the future.
Intelligent Data Management archiving, data classification, and search/discovery — and may depend heavily on expensive consulting services to stitch things together. For the most part, well-integrated data management solutions for the full life of an organization's data do not exist. In fact, current products are focused on the enterprise market: high performance and high complexity solutions that need to be managed by trained IT specialists.
Intelligent Data Management Information must be protected both in primary storage and in cost-effective long-term storage, available via search/discovery mechanisms that allow the organization to utilize its digital assets and recover information quickly. Cost effectiveness is vital and more than a matter of purchase price. It includes the cost of management over the long haul. Complex solutions require more administrator hours and can add dramatically to TCO.
Intelligent Data Management or corporate records-retention policies or to support litigation. Traditional approaches to compliance and eDiscovery often are reactive, manually intensive, and, ultimately, ineffective efforts to locate data across disparate systems and media types. Even large enterprises often outsource eDiscovery requests to consulting companies that specialize in performing such tasks. • Optimize: Many technologies are available that help in optimizing IT resources.
Intelligent Data Management deployment of DL2000. PowerVault DL2000 — Powered by CommVault additionally comes with deduplication capability built into the software, combining two components of IDM in a single product. Archive functionality can also be added to create a single solution that will protect and archive data while optimizing disk usage. Tiered storage Implementing tiered storage arrays can deliver important cost savings over a "one-size-fits-all" model of storage.
Intelligent Data Management services from Dell free up customers’ resources to focus on planning and related strategic projects. Our View of the Future Dell foresees a range of additional IDM technology enablers, including solutions for storage resource management, data replication, continuous data protection, server virtualization, and fixed-content retention and governance.