Gain control of copy data. Copy data sprawl is estimated to cost IT organizations $50.63 billion dollars by 2019. The risk of unstructured data access increases as the number of copies grow without the ability to control access to those copies. It’s time to take control of copy data, reclaim your storage, and return capital and operational expenditure, while driving innovation and implementing better data strategies that will enable operational agility while strengthening information governance. Do more with your copy data. IT departments are constantly battling operational dilemmas when it comes to enabling access to data without generating a myriad of copies of the same data (copy data sprawl) to enable the business. This challenge is known amongst the industry as copy data management. What if you could do more with your data protection copies? What if you could make those copies available for test and development, or analytics by simply deploying data virtualization technology? The new world of rapid data access. You can accelerate application development with more accurate data resulting in improved efficiency, faster time to market, and a competitive edge.

It’s common to hear that test and development teams often wait days and sometimes weeks to obtain the data they need. This delay in obtaining data creates a time to access gaps caused by the complex process of requesting, gaining permission, and provisioning storage. Veritas Technologies™ data virtualization technology eliminates the time to access gap by providing authorized users rapid self—service access to data, when and where they need it. No more waiting, delays or resource dependencies associated with obtaining fresh data. Now you can accelerate application development with more accurate data resulting in improved efficiency, faster time to market, and a competitive edge. As business units’ requirements for IT agility continue to expand and diversify, workload administrators (i.e., database administrators, file administrators, and others) have become more involved in every aspect of data protection and data management. This trend toward more direct involvement is logical, considering the deep insights that DBAs have about the platforms and datasets that they are responsible for. Rapid response to factors is a significant challenge for most organizations.

Veritas Copy Data Management

Indeed, ESG™ research reveals the same dynamic occurring with virtualization administrators and managers of unstructured file storage systems. Workload administrators are becoming more influential and involved in the data protection/data management life cycle, which has driven an increase in their consumption of workload specific tools for data management. ESG™ is seeing an upward trend related to leveraging specific data management tools for non database workloads as well. Essentially, evidence seems to indicate that both role specific administrators and workload specific tools are rising in relevance. The broad—based activity of data management encompasses even from a single workload perspective—myriad copies created to support both data protection initiatives and non data protection initiatives (i.e., test—dev and analytics), not to mention the production copy used by the workforce.  Unfortunately, while most of those copies provide business value to workload administrators, IT ops teams, and people across the organization, they often cause acute storage consumption problems and are costly to the business in terms of both retention and management.

Data Agility

Responding in an efficient and cost—effective method is even harder. Taking advantage of opportunities requires an organization to be nimble and agile. To support this goal, many IT groups have replaced traditional Waterfall development methodologies with agile practices. In this environment, more and more organizations seek faster release cycles. One of the main ways of achieving that objective is ensuring that test and development can get access to the right information, at the right time—not 3 weeks after the initial request. Data agility is critical in making this all possible. One hot topic that every modern business has on their radar for 2016 is business agility. In fact, reflecting on all my recent customer visits, no matter what my business conversations start with, I often end up discussing lack of business agility in many different forms. IT organizations are dealing more than ever with a significant amount of challenges when it comes to being agile in supporting the company business objectives, but if there is one huge elephant in the room that I would like to address today when it comes to challenges, that is data agility is for business agility what water is for humans.

Features And Benefits

Copy data management (CDM) is the industry term describing the double—edged challenge of (1) ensuring various operating units have access to the copy(ies) of data they need, and (2) reducing that rampant storage growth. But the problem is bigger than CDM. It isn’t about the copies and storage itself; it’s about ensuring the agility and access of all of those who can create value for the business—and doing it in a non intrusive and cost sustainable way. In short, the key challenges for the IT organization all center on how to: Justify the storage infrastructure and investments they already have in place, as well as what they must scale up for the near term future. Enable diverse business units to gain access to the data they need efficiently and without laborious efforts. Reduce the time needed to access data copies. Lower the risks, costs, and complexity associated with creating and managing a great deal of copy data. Veritas™ copy data management technology eliminates the time to access gap by providing authorized users rapid self—service access to data, when and where they need it. No more waiting, delays or resource dependencies associated with obtaining fresh data.