Among the financial tsunami, enterprises face significant security risks and challenges, driven by new technology, users of data center for security and protection more and more attention.
Facing Crisis
This time the financial crisis spread to the world from the United States, governments have taken measures to help resolve the economic crisis and to seek transfer, the economy started to recover. Meanwhile, the crisis is also a test of governments, companies, or even everyone.
What kind of business that can win? Believe that victory will belong to those who must remain confident of the company, among those in the "strategic defiance of the crisis, tactically crisis" of the enterprise.
However, we are confident talking about here is not the kind of blind self-confidence, but on the solid foundation of confidence. For enterprises, consolidate the foundation, including enterprise customer in mind to establish the brand reputation, solid business management skills and efficiency of enterprise information systems.
Grasp the key
IDC research shows that from 2006 to 2010, the world's digital information will grow six times. The continued expansion of digital information is an indisputable fact that, even in the context of the international financial crisis, this trend is irreversible. And many business users of the biggest issues is the system utilization is low, often less than 40%. So, for business users to build highly efficient, extensible, easy to manage the information infrastructure, the amount of data is the response to the rapid growth of the key.
At the same time, a series of security-related application of new technologies have become a current focus of attention. From the data center security, virtual, flexible, scalable, has been extended to the desktop, integrate new technologies into the system, the ideal tool to enhance efficiency.
IDC's first quarter global server virtualization technology report, the security around the data center, virtualization and other technologies are gradually becoming more mature. Best example is the world's second quarter of 2008 related to software license sales over the previous quarter 53%, compared with growth of 72% over the same period the previous year.
In fact, the economic downturn, prompted a number of companies actively seeking to simplify and reduce resource consumption technology. McKinsey research that the data center resource consumption will be 8.6 billion in 2007 surged to 11.5 billion in 2010. Today, the green data center has moved from concept to practical, and will continue to deepen, more secure, more cost savings, higher efficiency, the one less. The foreseeable future there will be more help IT staff make full use of existing resources, innovative technologies continue to emerge.
Security is fundamental
If the establishment of virtual green data center technology to improve efficiency and value of information data is stored first step in faith, then the establishment of a comprehensive security system to secure such confidence is that we go the next step. Continue to take the data center, for example, can be found, data storage is only a first step, second step must be constructed, including data backup, archiving, security, recovery, prevent data loss, etc., the safety protection system, or as business continuity security system.
Research InfoPro that business continuity data center safety has become a director of information security management in the primary work, the importance of even more than the implementation of virtualization. The reason, on the one hand, the growing complexity of enterprise IT architecture, users are able to handle data backup and security management interfaces of multiple single point tools demand; the other hand, in order to meet the needs of server virtualization applications, traditional data security architecture must be adjusted.
In the past 2008 years, although many enterprises to strengthen the recovery planning and security, but the specific safety tests still need for improvement. Research has shown that, due to human error or technical operations, three percent of the security test to be a failure. In other words, many companies need a thorough revision of backup and security recovery plan.
In addition, some financial, telecommunications institutions frequent data loss problem also raises the importance of data security, disk backup, data encryption and other products have become the focus of procurement.
The growing demand for enterprise, IT resources are limited after all. Therefore, many companies tend to adopt software as a service (SaaS) technology model, online data security backup is one example. This service model can save product procurement, configuration, maintenance, and traditional solutions authorization (On-promises Solution) costs.
Can be said that corporate information security and business continuity protection, has become a financial tsunami should not be neglected. When information and data have been used and played out the largest maximum value, the firm's confidence must also have been established to maximize. For each enterprise, the current economic environment facing the same, but not the same as is the ability of enterprises to adjust their own and ways. Only by understanding and to optimize their own business, to the severe economic situation certain to win. (The author is senior vice president of Symantec, president, Asia Pacific and Japan)