Data explosion poses challenge for APJBy The Manila TimesOrganizations in Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ) are managing close to five times the amount of data they did in 2016. Yet, only 13 percent of businesses are data protection “leaders,” according to the third Dell EMC Global Data Protection Index in collaboration with Vanson Bourne. For those struggling to find adequate data protection solutions for newer technologies, more than half (54 percent) said they could not find suitable data protection solutions for artificial intelligence and machine learning data, followed by cloud-native applications (49 percent) and IoT (40 percent). Challenges aside, the insights and data monetisation opportunities are infinite for organizations ready to transform.”Cloud is changing data protection landscapeCloud technology is becoming an integral component of the data protection landscape in APJ. The top use cases for data protection within the public cloud include backup/snapshot services to protect workloads and cloud-enabled data protection software.

Source: Manila Times April 13, 2019 16:07 UTC