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DATA PROTECTION AND STORAGE

Amazing happens when data protects your business.

Data is your organization’s most precious asset, but storing and protecting that data can be a challenge. Your IT team must contend with a laundry list of internal and external threats while also managing increasingly complex hybrid storage environments.

The Benefits of Hybrid Cloud Storage for Business

Data center managers face the challenge of needing a budget-friendly storage capacity with flexibility for future workloads as well as analytics, security, compliance and business continuity. A hybrid cloud solution provides an innovative approach to meet these demands.

CDW’s storage and data migration services offer professional assistance custom-tailored to fit your organization’s unique data infrastructure.

Modernizing Storage

Structured and Unstructured Data Solutions

Hybrid cloud storage is ideal for organizations with frequently accessed structured data and those requiring backups and long-term archives of both structured and unstructured data.

Strategy

By leveraging both cloud and on-premises storage solutions, data centers can take a more strategic approach to high-volume data management. Innovative storage management solutions can automatically store data in a chosen location on a designated medium.

Flexibility and Scalability

Cloud storage offers quick and easy scaling so organizations can handle sudden surges in data traffic.

Always-on Availability

Hybrid cloud storage is unaffected by outage problems such as local natural disasters and hardware failures.

Creating a Cyber Resilience Environment Utilizing Modern Backup and Storage Technology

Prevent a data disaster with CDW’s data backup and recovery best practices, which draw on virtualization technologies and emerging data backup software. From server virtualization to developing a software-defined data center (SDDC), CDW can help decide which backup and recovery strategy is right for your business. The reality is that many businesses are unprepared for a successful large-scale cybersecurity incident. By improving your business’s cyber resilience, you have a much better chance of enduring and recovering from any cyber event — including sophisticated cyberattacks and natural disasters — while avoiding extensive downtime and data loss.

Creating a Cyber Resilience Strategy

Understand the difference between backup and replication.

Replication is a “hot copy” of production data, while a backup is a separate “cold copy” that is protected if the source is corrupted.

Follow the “3-2-1” rule.

Have at least three copies of your data: your primary and two backup copies. Store at least one backup copy offsite.

Automate everything.

Backup software allows for automatic backup operations and automated recovery tests to confirm the integrity of your backup jobs.

Secure with data-at-rest encryption (DaRE).

To protect data from being stolen, encryption should be a standard practice for sensitive data on backup devices used for primary data storage.

How Hybrid All-flash Arrays Optimize Data Centers

Data center managers seeking to optimize efficiency should consider replacing mechanical disks with all-flash arrays.

The Benefits of Hybrid All-flash Arrays

  • Lightning fast. Flash drives conduct input-output operations (20k IOPS) much more quickly than hard drives (200 IOPS), significantly improving performance.
  • Unparalleled efficiency. Flash arrays are smaller and use less power, delivering greater value at a lower cost.
  • CDW can help. CDW can help organizations deploy flash storage solutions to optimize data center operations.
  • Reduced costs. Lower prices have made flash arrays a more common choice for workloads.
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Seamlessly Scale With Managed Backup Solutions

Many organizations need help offloading backup management from their IT teams. Managed backup solutions offer automated, secure backups that ensure rapid recovery in case of an incident.

Benefits of Managed Backup

  • Simplify backup through an expert partner you can trust.
  • Reduce your total cost of ownership.
  • Protect your data with industry-leading security.
  • Recover data rapidly to meet business service-level agreements.

Safeguard Your Organization With DPIM Solutions

The amount of data businesses and organizations collect is expected to multiply exponentially in the future, and with that come greater challenges with data protection.

CDW’s Data Protection and Information Management (DPIM) practice advises customers on all aspects of data protection, data loss, data governance and information management. Our Data Protection Scorecard Workshop enables businesses to find the data protection solution that best matches their needs.

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Modern Problems Require Modern Solutions

Data protection and storage solutions reduce security risks while supporting business agility. CDW can help you navigate options that suit your needs.

What You Can Achieve With Data Protection and Storage Solutions

  • Mitigate risk. Protect data through encryption, compliance and disaster recovery plans.
  • Manage storage resources. Automate processes and enable scalable storage with unified management.
  • Support user requirements. Provide flexible access controls and cross-platform compatibility.
  • Control costs. Implement cost optimization tools and reduce data duplication.

SOLUTION SPOTLIGHT

Benefits of Infrastructure Modernization

Legacy IT infrastructure, with its disparate platforms and monolithic architectures, creates inefficiencies and security vulnerabilities that hinder business agility and competitiveness. Infrastructure modernization addresses these challenges by implementing cloud computing, automation, microservices and enhanced security measures, resulting in improved efficiency, scalability and adaptability to evolving business needs.

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