Data represents an enterprise’s most valuable asset. Yet, many organizations fall short in their attempts to treat data with the care it deserves. As threats grow more serious, modernization and transformation efforts push data into a bewildering array of silos and novel hosting environments — from edge to cloud. This complexity results in data becoming more vulnerable to attack by today’s
sophisticated hackers.

Existing approaches to data protection are increasingly deficient. Historically, customers’ basic approach was to copy the data that changed in each production environment and store that copy in another, secondary location. It was usually done once per day during off-peak hours, typically late at night to avoid impact to infrastructure performance. This periodic approach leaves much to be desired in our changing world where cyber threats abound, posing the following challenges to IT organizations trying to protect, recover, and secure an enormous and ever-growing amount of data: