Data Protection and Information Lifecycle Management

Chapter 1. Introduction to Data Protection

In This Chapter:

• What Does Data Protection Mean?

• A Model for Information, Data, and Storage

• Why Is Data Protection Important to the Enterprise?

• Data Loss and Business Risk

• Connectivity: The Risk Multiplier

• Business Continuity: The Importance of Data Availability to Business Operations

• The Changing Face of Data Protection

• Key Points

The explosion of corporate data in the 1990s, coupled with new data storage technology such as networked storage, has made the accumulation and management of large amounts of data a corporate priority. Corporations try to accumulate terabytes of data on increasingly large storage systems. Gathering customer data, vendor information, minute financial measurements, product data, retail ...