Cloud protection: Secure data to drive business growth without being compromised

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The steady progress towards digitisation with the government’s programmes like Digital India, cashless economy along with the mushrooming of the e-commerce industry and the digitisation of organisations across sizes and verticals is generating unprecedented amount of data daily. Being one of the most important components for the growth and success of any business, data is the most valued asset of any organisation. With the surge in the number of cyber threats and its impact on business, data protection has become the need of the hour.

Data protection should be equally applicable in public as well as private sector. Personal information is being held by both the government and private players such as telecom companies and banks. Complaint mechanisms need to be defined wherever personal data is involved.

It is very important to ensure that personal data is not kept longer than necessary and time limits should be established by the controller for complete deletion of data. Every reasonable step should be taken to ensure that personal data is secure which will leave less space for any potential data breach. As per the findings of the 2016 edition of the Global Data Protection Index, IT transformation requires information security and governance through sound data protection. It also reveals that a majority of organisations are still behind the curve in data protection readiness.

Cloud protection is definitely an important aspect of any strategy undertaken by an organisation. Whether your applications are on-premises, extending to the cloud, have been moved to the cloud, or are born in the cloud, they require the same level of protection.

For applications that are extending to the cloud, leverage the elasticity, agility and low cost of private or public cloud storage for long-term retention and disaster recovery. Cloud protection solutions protect your data no matter where it is in the cloud.

Bringing together protection storage and software, including powerful search, monitoring and analytics, provides coverage for a wide range of applications, both physical and virtual, in delivering efficient and high performance protection and recovery solutions, also extending data protection seamlessly to public and private cloud.

We have witnessed organisations open to embracing digital transformation.

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Yves Mulkers

Yves Mulkers is the founder of 7wData and a widely followed voice in the data and AI community. He curates the 7wData and AI Beat newsletters, reaching hundreds of thousands of data and AI professionals, and writes on data strategy, analytics, AI, and the evolving data ecosystem.