The Best Backup is No Backup: The Rise of Self-Protecting Global File Systems

Roughly 80% of all data is unstructured data, according to a study from Deloitte. And according to a 2018 study from 451 Research, “Unstructured data continues to grow faster than traditional database data for customers in most vertical markets.” Protecting this rapidly growing data set poses a serious, ongoing challenge to the enterprise. Certainly, backup and disaster recovery technologies have made a great deal of progress over the last few years in reducing RPOs and RTOs. Increasingly, organizations no longer backup data only at night, but can instead do so many times per day without affecting the performance of the…