EDITOR’S QUESTION
LUCAS SALTER, GENERAL
MANAGER, DATA
PROTECTION SOLUTIONS,
APJ, DELL TECHNOLOGIES
Q + A + Q + A + Q + A + Q + A + Q + A + Q + A + Q + A +
As many businesses in the APAC
region are deploying, or plan to
deploy, mission-critical workloads
into both public and private cloud, the
sheer volume of data they need to manage
continues to grow exponentially. With this
data surge, organisations are increasingly
appreciating the value that this data holds,
with most finding ways to monetise or gain
greater insight into their customers.
What this suggests is that data has become
the lifeblood of businesses and a key factor
in determining an organisation’s success.
Because of the intrinsic value of this new
wealth of data, it is not surprising that it
has become a target for cyberattacks. This
threat, combined with other disruptive
events such as accidental data loss and
system downtime, means that instances of
data loss are growing at an alarming rate.
Recently, Dell Technologies released the
findings of its Global Data Protection Index
(GDPI) which found that cyberattacks and
disruptive events are on the rise, affecting
82% of organisations surveyed. Due to this
far reaching impact, the estimated total cost
of data loss increased to more than US$1
million per organisation since March 2019,
and this doesn’t include the reputational
and operational costs that the business will
suffer at the same time.
As well as noting a rise in disruptive events
in the past 12 months, the GDPI report
also found that the majority (68%) of
respondents were concerned that their
organisation would experience a disruptive
event sometime over the next year.
Meanwhile, 45% of respondents anticipate
that some kind of unplanned system
downtime will occur in the next 12 months
leading to substantial data loss, while 35%
“
NO MATTER HOW
DATA IS LOST,
DAMAGED OR
RESTRICTED, IT
IS A PRICE TOO
HIGH FOR ANY
BUSINESS TO PAY.
predict a malicious cyberattack or other
cyber incident that prevents access to data.
The main point that is highlighted by the
GDPI report is that no matter how data is
lost, damaged or restricted, it is a price too
high for any business to pay. As we enter
the next data decade, resilient, reliable
and modern data protection strategies are
essential in helping businesses make smarter,
faster decisions and combat the effects of
costly disruptions.
Dell Technologies can help an organisation
understand what its data and cybersecurity
needs are and assist them on their
journey to implementing a tailored data
protection strategy to fit their business. Dell
Technologies has a full portfolio of solutions
that can protect data holistically, wherever
it sits, with best in class data and network
efficiency and flexibility.
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