FEATURE : DATA MANAGEMENT
to NetApp ’ s 2023 Data Complexity Report . For most companies , IT infrastructure maintenance will remain a challenge with ongoing cost pressures and demands for ever-greater innovation . Achieving innovation goals requires a strong IT infrastructure to unlock insights , ensure efficient operations and automate more mundane tasks .
Businesses will shift their focus from finding the perfect cloud environment to finding an underlying intelligent data infrastructure . This infrastructure combines unified data storage with integrated data management capabilities for security and observability within a single platform to help store , control , and use data more
THOSE THAT CAN MAKE THEIR DATA WORK FOR THEM WILL OPERATE MORE EFFICIENTLY AND DRIVE BUSINESS VALUE . easily no matter what cloud services , applications and databases are in use .
As companies adopt a more intelligent data infrastructure , they ’ ll find they have increased agility to adapt to changing market conditions quickly . With this environment , IT can empower the business to focus on learning , building and innovating without worrying about their cloud infrastructure .
Assume your data was already hacked
In the face of persistent cybersecurity threats from bad actors that run the gamut from insiders to cybercriminal gangs and nation-states , organisations need a renewed focus on how they recover from cyberattacks as preventing them becomes rarer . It is an ongoing challenge to prevent bad actors from accessing , stealing or tampering with IT environments and critical assets like customer data and intellectual property .
In fact , experts predict that by 2031 there will be a ransomware attack every two seconds , costing victims US $ 265 billion annually . Because of this , 87 % of C-suite and board-level executives view ransomware protection as a high , or top , priority in their organisation according to NetApp ’ s 2023 Data Complexity Report . The biggest threat to a business in the wake of a
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