As data volumes continue to expand across databases, file systems, cloud environments and big- data platforms, and as compliance retention
requirements lengthen (now up to five years for some regulations), there is increasing stress on IT organizations to address significant data management and storage requirements for data security solutions. As a result, the capacity and processing power needed to support today’s data security objectives has risen dramatically—and it will only continue to rise.
At the same time, there is organizational pressure to obtain more sophisticated security and compliance insights faster, supported by prebuilt, high- performance reporting capabilities and interactive data exploration tools. Further, data security and compliance efforts—and the associated collection, storage and management of that data—must apply across the entire technology landscape, and that landscape is ever-c hanging and growing.