The Critical Need for Simplifying Data Resilience in Your Business

by | Sep 10, 2024

Managing data protection across disparate systems often leads to inefficiencies, fragmented visibility, and increased risk. Simplifying your approach with a unified solution like IBM® Storage Defender allows you to detect threats early, streamline recovery, and ensure data integrity. Discover how reducing complexity strengthens your data resilience and keeps your critical assets secure.

Data protection is more complex than ever. Many organizations are overwhelmed by intricate data protection systems containing multiple tools and technologies. These systems often include disparate backup, disaster recovery, and threat detection solutions, each with its own management interface and set of protocols. This complexity can lead to fragmented data visibility, increased potential for errors, and sluggish response times. Additionally, integrating these diverse components can be cumbersome, leading to inefficiencies and difficulties in managing data security effectively. A simplified data resilience strategy, on the other hand, allows you to quickly detect, address, and recover from potential data issues.

How Simplification Enhances Data Protection

Holistic Data Visibility: A unified approach consolidates data protection efforts, providing a comprehensive view of your environment. This integrated perspective enables more effective monitoring and quicker identification of potential issues.

Streamlined Operations: Simplicity accelerates operational workflows by reducing the number of tools and interfaces. This streamlined setup reduces the time and effort needed for management, allowing your team to focus on strategic tasks rather than grappling with complex systems.

Agility in Response: Simplified systems enhance your ability to respond to threats and recover from incidents. With fewer components and processes to manage, your team can act swiftly and efficiently, minimizing downtime and data loss.

Compliance and Risk Management: A cohesive data protection strategy simplifies adherence to regulatory requirements. This integrated approach helps ensure that data management practices consistently align with compliance standards, reducing the risk of non-compliance and associated penalties.

Introducing IBM Storage Defender

IBM® Storage Defender simplifies data resilience by detecting threats early and helping recover operations quickly after an attack. This comprehensive solution addresses data protection challenges with advanced features:

  • Early Threat Detection: AI-powered sensors identify threats to your mission-critical data early across primary and secondary storage, enhancing cyber resiliency.
  • Enhanced Data Security: Immutable storage snapshots, air gap protection, and clean room isolation ensure data integrity, keeping it unaltered and safe from tampering.
  • Automated Recovery: Recover swiftly from disruptions with automated and orchestrated recovery processes aligned with security operations.

IBM Storage Defender connects infrastructure, data, and security teams through actionable alerts, enabling quick isolation of threats and swift execution of recovery plans. It enhances resilience by identifying the safest recovery points and orchestrating recovery across workloads.

With credit-based licensing, IBM Storage Defender offers flexibility by allowing extensions with optional components for storage virtualization, data protection, threat detection, and hardware snapshots. This ensures you only pay for what you need.

IBM Storage Defender unifies resilience operations by providing a single view of data resilience and recoverability, aligning all teams on recovery plans, and enabling seamless collaboration.

Protect critical infrastructure, including virtual machines, containers, IaaS, and backups for SAP, Oracle®, IBM Db2®, Cassandra, and MongoDB. Continuous AI-powered threat detection scans for anomalies, enabling early threat resolution.

With its advanced features, Storage Defender addresses the complex challenges of today’s data environment. It provides comprehensive cyber resiliency, continuous data protection, compliance, and automation, acting as your data armor and ensuring your business can withstand and quickly recover from any data threats.

Simplify Your Data Resilience Today

Navigating the complexities of data protection requires more than just advanced technology—it demands a unified strategy that simplifies and strengthens your approach.

IBM Storage Defender is designed to provide a seamless, integrated solution that enhances your data resilience and operational efficiency.

Explore how IBM Storage Defender and ATS can transform your data protection strategy and safeguard your critical assets. An ATS Data Protection Advisor is ready to guide you through the process, tailor solutions to your unique needs, and ensure your organization can confidently handle any data threat.

Contact us now to schedule a consultation and see firsthand how IBM Storage Defender and ATS can fortify your data resilience.

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