How to Protect Against Data Sprawl
Although cloud is easy to deploy, it’s not always easy to track data in the cloud. Increasingly, IT leaders are asking how they can keep their organizations safe in a world where data is in so many different locations, Manley says. “The answer is, you can’t keep doing things the same way,” he says.
Instead of focusing on “controlling the machines,” Manley recommends IT departments prioritize the basics: Provide a safety net for data by backing everything up. This way, IT leaders can “have confidence that no matter what happens, their data is going to be safe and secure,” he says.
The second step is to ensure you can scale data protection strategies across the entire environment. If users make different choices or adopt different applications and locations, the same services should be able to apply universally.
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