- Originally Posted by Tony Cerqueira on Thu, Jan 28, 2010 @ 12:02 AM
If there is an ominously absent capability missing from the legacy backup products of today (and yesterday), it would be sticky policies that follow data wherever it goes, and auto-data classification that occurs when a file is created.
The capabilities to serve these needs are so obviously missing from the old backup paradigms (still with us today, mind you), that 2 things are starting happen:
1) People know this stuff is missing. They
feel it in their bones. They also feel it when they need to look at piles and piles of data, and want to somehow make sense of it. But they can’t. They also want protection to happen the moment it is needed, with a simple policy. Not when a backup product tells it to.
2) Vendors know this stuff is missing as well. Many of them operate in the world of block and volume data, and simply have no chance to manage information while they are backing up or replicating blocks of bits, instead of information. Others have no way to manage metadata intelligently or actively. So they try to “market” their way around it.
The problem is impossible to fix within today’s legacy backup infrastructures. And its not going away. It will simply grow, exponentially, unless you start getting after it.
AIMstor from Cofio was created with policy based data management, and classification of data in mind.
Giving users control of what they want to do with data (Live Backup, CDP, Real-Time Replication, Tracking, Archive, etc.) is one thing. Giving users the ability to do it intelligently, such as withworkflow and data flow is something else altogether.
Tags: archive, backup, data change detection, data classification, data policy management, data restore, dedupe, disaster recovery, ILM, information management, versioning