 Data
Reduction Solutions
The continuing explosion of data is one of the biggest challenges that IT
organizations of all sizes are facing today. IBM is uniquely positioned to
help our customers meet this challenge with a holistic approach to data
reduction that addresses the major causes of data proliferation as well as
meaningful solutions that optimize storage that help to reduce capital and
administrative costs while improving service levels.
The first step is to eliminate the number one source of data growth by
only backing up the data that has changed since the last backup – almost all
backup products on the market force you to perform periodic full backups,
which creates enormous amounts of duplicate data.
Second, determine what different types of data you have and categorize it
so that you can manage it most effectively, by moving less
frequently-accessed data to lower-cost tiers of storage, and by deleting the
data that you no longer need or want. By cleaning out your production
storage, you will shorten your backup cycles, improve application
performance, and delay the acquisition of additional capacity.
Third, put automated processes in place, based on policies that meet
business requirements and/or service level agreements, to keep your
production systems as clean as possible.
Finally, compress and deduplicate the data you end up putting into your
data protection and retention systems.
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