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ABOUT
Nizar Elfarra is Pre-Sales Director
at CommVault. He has rich technical
experience in data management. Prior
to joining CommVault, Nizar held senior
technical positions at EMC, Nortel, Sun
Microsystems and Symantec.
IT’S CRITICAL TO
MANAGING RISK TO
BE ABLE TO PULL
DIFFERENT DATA
SOURCES INTO A SINGLE
POOL OF PROTECTION,
MANAGEMENT AND
ACCESS
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technology that will allow workers the
computing freedom they desire, at
the same time ensuring data is safe,
retrievable and to the best possible
extent, risk free. Below are five areas
that CIOs and IT managers need to
be watchful about when deciding
the best data management and
protection solution:
Enabling file synchronisation
Enterprises view BYOD as a way
to increase productivity, and that
means enabling work to continue
without delay across the different
devices used by employees. They
need a file synchronisation solution
that meets data security objectives
while enabling data access, whether
the data was created at an office
desktop, or on a laptop at a different
location. While employees send files
to the cloud or put them on USB
drives, assumedly to work on later at
home, often they may not be able to
return to the file and wind up working
on it again, back at the desktop or
laptop.
This creates risk because business data
now resides in a potentially unsecured
location and different versions of the
files exist in different locations. It’s
critical to managing risk to be able to
pull different data sources into a single
pool of protection, management and
access.
Efficiently protecting data
As employees use as many as three
devices a day, data governance takes
on more complexity. Even less sensitive
data needs to be governed as files
move across devices, and outside the
enterprise, to suppliers and customers.
It is important to have a solution that
helps to prevent data loss by enabling
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