chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Contextualizing Data Protection -- chapter 3 Data Life Cycle -- chapter 4 Elements of a Protection System -- chapter 5 IT Governance and Data Protection -- chapter 6 Monitoring and Reporting -- chapter 7 Business Continuity -- chapter 8 Data Discovery -- chapter 9 Continuous Availability and Replication -- chapter 10 Snapshots -- chapter 11 Backup and Recovery -- chapter 12 The Cloud -- chapter 13 Deduplication -- chapter 14 Protecting Virtual Infrastructure -- chapter 15 Big Data -- chapter 16 Data Storage Protection -- chapter 17 Tape -- chapter 18 Converged Infrastructure -- chapter 19 Data Protection Service Catalogs -- chapter 20 Holistic Data Protection Strategies -- chapter 21 Data Recovery -- chapter 22 Choosing Protection Infrastructure -- chapter 23 The Impact of Flash on Data Protection -- chapter 24 In Closing.
The book also discusses how businesses seeking to creatively leverage their IT investments and to drive through cost optimization are increasingly looking at data protection as a mechanism to achieve those goals. In addition to being a type of insurance policy, data protection is becoming an enabler for new processes around data movement and data processing..