The presence of “big data” is changing the way data is being stored for organizations. Not only do organizations have structured and semi-structured data, but there are volumes of unstructured data coming from sources within and increasingly outside the firewall. The percentage of mission-critical data is growing within the company as well, and therefore creating a situation where IT has to be able to guarantee as much as half of the data that resides in a company’s systems can be recoverable and accessible within minutes or hours.
Read the full column on big data storage and backup at IT Briefcase.net.