An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief
It’s fun to get caught up in all of the exciting ways that organizations can apply new technologies to create new business models and enhanced customer experiences. But digital transformation is about changing the way organizations operate from top-to-bottom. Even when it comes to the unsexiest of technologies: the tape backup.
For most large enterprise organizations, tape backups are a way of life. They have existed — and have existed largely unchanged — for longer than most of us can remember. Cloudian, however, believes that its time for the tape backup to take its long-deserved retirement. It feels that in an era in which organizations must measure data resiliency in minutes or seconds, tape backup no longer meets the needs of the modern digital enterprise.
Its solution brings the flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of cloud-based object storage to an on-premises deployment, while its multi-cloud support also allows organizations to selectively migrate data to the cloud. The result is a near-real-time, multi-use platform that enables organizations to deliver higher data resiliency and availability that meets the enterprise’s changing data requirements.
Providing easier, more real-time access to backup or archive data, however, is really just the start. The long-term value of the company’s technology and strategy is to unleash the potential of the data that is now locked up in tape backups and archives in most organizations. Inside this data is a treasure-trove of information waiting to be mined and analyzed to uncover insights about an organization’s customers and business processes. Unleashing this data is a transformative event and a vital part of the digital transformation story.
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