How does policy-based data management play into an organizations data protection strategy?
TP: Policy-based data management, especially DLM, addresses two issues with data protection – complexity and cost. As data protection needs grow, they often become more complex. Complexity leads to mistakes that can be devastating. Simply trying to keep track of all the data protection assets and processes becomes daunting. Policy-based data protection policies help to unify best practices into a set of rules. These rules in turn provide an easy-to-follow set of steps that ensure that mistakes don’t happen. Cost is another issue that policy-based data protection tackles. We often apply the same level of data protection to all data regardless of its worth to the organization. Expensive resources are consumed for relatively unimportant data. By examining what data is worth, appropriate resources can be allocated to protecting it. Instead of running out of expensive high-availability resources, much of an organization’s data can be protected more modestly. For example, if the policy state
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