Mass data fragmentation: A growing challenge for digital enterprises – ITP.net

Mass data fragmentation: A growing challenge for digital enterprises – ITP.net

With data being the lifeblood of the modern enterprise, it’s no surprise that improving the posture of the data, consolidating copies, removing ‘dark’ data, improving governance, and of course, making sure that all the enterprise’s data is safe, secure, and recoverable are all top priorities for IT teams.

And yet, in practice, few organisations manage their data as a strategic asset. This has been exacerbated by the pandemic which forced the implementation of short-term fixes for business continuity, with little consideration for long-term implications. As a result, organisations today are afflicted by mass data fragmentation, and its several profound impacts.

Data has exploded in volume while simultaneously becoming scattered across multiple public clouds, data centres, remote offices, and the edge, with little centralised oversight. In each of these locations, data has become isolated in specialised infrastructure—often from multiple vendors—to manage basic functions such as backup, networking, storage, archiving, disaster recovery, dev/test, and analytics.