Do you still suffer from GDPR headache?

The European Union’s GDPR, with its eleven chapters of 99 articles, is intended to secure the protection of privacy and the processing of personal data but can be quite intimidating to review and understand. Many areas of data protection have not been newly regulated by the GDPR and many businesses are already following general data protection rules for many years. But they now must face the painful possibility of penalties and/or the constant fear of receiving formal warnings, not following the rules. The regulations have put small and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs) data management policies to the test.

Where is that file? How often do you ask yourself that question? You´re not alone! With more files and growing storage capacity, it becomes harder to find files. External disks have made it even worse with their big capacities and cheap price. Now there is a new question: Where is that disk with that file?

Tandberg Data has been a leader in back up storage solutions with its RDX® technology for more than a decade. Let’s take a look back on the milestones and significant achievements it took to achieve this decade of sucess.

Technology changes over time and the operational workflows for companies change as well. Data protection is one area that is a constant in that the requirements to protect data will continue. What is changing is the method for protecting information. The current workflows used by many in performing backups are unsustainable given the increase in the amount of data and the operational cost increases. New approaches using backup to disk and remote replication to create the protected data copies are more prevalent now and continue to be improved with new technologies introduced.

As I attended a number of broadcast and video events this spring, the future of the storage landscape became very clear to me. Storage in the form of disks has become commoditized by falling prices and easy connectivity. Even high performance storage is moving into the consumer space with technologies like Thunderbolt. Many professionals collect large volumes of data, decentralised and without any clear planning. And who can blame them? When you can buy terabytes of cheap and fast RAID, why would you spend too much time strategising? Just store it all!

The management and protection of data is critical to the future success of every small and medium-sized organisation. This means that IT leaders must do what it takes to guarantee that their data will be in their hands at all times when they need it the most.

Based on market trends, input from market leaders and many of our own customers, here are some challenges that small businesses will continue to face in the next few years.

Data is the life blood of every organization and it needs to be protected and managed properly. Greater than 90% of businesses that suffer a complete data loss go out of business with in 12 months. In recent years, businesses have become even more aware of the need to back up and archive their data as part of their overall business continuity and disaster recovery plans.