An integrated approach to data management

Abstract

Every day enterprises and organizations from different branches of economics have to solve numerous tasks connected with procession and storage of growing data volumes, access control, support and business continuity. At the same time data storage infrastructure has to provide rational resource utilization, be flexible and minimize expenses on information management. In view of the fact, that today information is one of the most valuable assets of any enterprise and organization, it is necessary to pay more attention to complex approach to data management. Thus, such tasks appear to be urgent and require qualitatively new solutions for data management and provisioning of effective functioning of enterprises and organizations. The paper describes essential concepts of data storage and management as well as considers complex data management with CommVault Simpana platform, its structure and basic components. Functionality of CommVault Simpana is analysed in comparison with similar products of other manufacturers. The features of different versions are described; a special attention is paid to their capabilities in the field of virtual platforms and cloud integration, as well as protection of workplaces taking into account mobile devices. Future development of Simpana platform is described. The development is oriented to its productivity growth together with expansion of number of corporate users, active support of intellectual analytics systems working in real time mode. All these improvements will significantly increase architecture scaling capabilities while new indexation methods will increase the productivity. It is demonstrated that complex approach to data management is a priority for organizations and enterprises of corporate level as it significantly improves efficiency of data management and as such the efficiency of functioning of enterprises and organizations in general.