Data Protection
Data protection has never been as challenging as it is today, thanks to the continuing adoption of virtualization and private cloud architectures, the specter of ransomware, the unfettered growth in unstructured data, increased compliance regulations, consolidation initiatives, and aggressive service-level agreements.
Data protection is evolving to adjust to new IT infrastructure driven by digital transformation, cyber threats, legal mandates, and the risk of data loss.
Data protection software and services are essential for preventing downtime, ensuring IT continuity, and facilitating system and data recovery. They are also crucial in the fight against ransomware.
Enterprise Strategy Group’s Data Protection analysts and demand-side research cover the technologies and services available, both in the data center and in the cloud, including:
- Backup
- Business continuity/Disaster recovery
- Cloud data protection
- Compliance
- Cyber resilience/Ransomware
- Data privacy regulations
- Data protection
- Data replication
- DRaaS
- E-discovery
- Intelligent data management
Research Brief
How Commercial Discovery and Classification Tools Can Ease Data Resilience Skill Shortage Impacts
While even the best-resourced IT organization can perpetually feel like they need more help on hand to contend with the intense cybersecurity threat landscape, some organizations are solving the situation by deploying third-party tools to supersede internally developed tools. Internal resource constraints are forcing firms to find novel ways of stretching thin pools of expertise […]
Analysts Covering Data Protection
Jon Brown
Senior Analyst, Data Protection, Ops & Sustainability
Areas of Expertise
- AIOps
- Backup
- Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery
- Data Protection
- DRaaS
- FinOps
Recent Data Protection Insights
Research Brief | March 26, 2025
IBM Announces IBM Storage Ceph as a Service
Research Brief | February 28, 2025
HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 Enhances Security and Efficiency for the AI Era
Research Brief | February 25, 2025
Cloud Business Resilience With Commvault Cloud Rewind
Research Brief | February 25, 2025