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Managing distributed data in the enterprise.

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As mission-critical data spreads across businesses, managing and protecting remote data, i.e. everything stored outside the data center, poses unique challenges. Remote data can exist on a variety of network and computing platforms, can be located at sites without IT staff, and its protection can depend on nontechnical employees who need to remember to perform regular backups. Traditional remote data management is high cost, unreliable, and manually intensive in the face of these challenges. This article examines how to choose the best remote data solution for your organization.

Key Considerations for Managing Remote Data

Effective remote data management requires consideration of a variety of factors, including:

Central Policy-Based Control:

Efficient control requires the ability to implement central policies, set a rule once and have it work company-wide, rather than managing activities individually at different sites. However, many products claiming "central control," in fact, require Administrators to set policy through a unique connection to each remote node whenever business requirements change.

Wide Area Network (WAN) Network Bandwidth Utilization:

Because they move data between locations, remote data solutions must accommodate bandwidth restrictions. They should have features that enable efficient bandwidth use, such as byte-level data transfer, bandwidth throttling, multi-streaming, and compression. Also, the less overhead information a product adds to transmitted data, the better. Since remote connections may become impaired, companies need the ability to restart at the point of failure and re-route information flow to alternate networks.

Security and Data Integrity:

Effective solutions...

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