ABSTRACT
Understanding IT’s heritage of data protection technologies is essential to understanding the thinking that still permeates the IT community regarding the nature of data protection. The genesis of that “thinking” was the limited choice for data protection technologies in the recent past, as well as cost considerations. Note that this focus has been on data protection technologies as related to risk management because, except for data security-related technologies, the role of governance and compliance in data protection was not generally recognized. In fact, even from a risk management perspective, not that many years ago, data protection and backup/ restore processes using tape were synonymous. All the other numerous data protection technologies in use today were not only unavailable; they were unthinkable.
