Changing Approaches tn Data Protection

摘要

Data backup and disaster recovery planning has long been an important part of corporate organizations, although often not an especially prominent one. A number of trends (from the attacks in 2001 and the continued threat of natural disasters, to the increased corporate and government data collection and retention requirements of regulations like Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and the Homeland Security Act) have heightened the attention and awareness of the importance of data backup and disaster recovery in organizations of all sizes. But what has been the result of this increased attention? Have IT managers changed how they prepare, plan or operate? Imation Corporation, a global leader in data storage technology, commissioned a data protection survey in the spring of 2003 to find out. While much of the attention to IT practices post-9/11 focused on the world's largest companies and their data center operations, this survey focused on the broader set of IT directors and managers operating in open systems network environments.