From the course: CCSP Cert Prep: 2 Data Security
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Data dispersion
From the course: CCSP Cert Prep: 2 Data Security
Data dispersion
- [Instructor] Data dispersion is one of the core principles of business continuity. It says that important data should always be stored in more than one location. This ensures that a copy of the data persists, even if one storage location is completely destroyed. Think of data dispersion as the modern day equivalent of the adage, don't put all your eggs in one basket. Data dispersion lets you put each egg in many different baskets. Storage administrators have practiced data dispersion for years. In on-premises data centers, they often use techniques like redundant storage systems at remote locations that were active and ready to pick up at a moment's notice, or less expensively, they kept backup tapes at a location other than the organization's primary data center. Data dispersion in the era of on-premises computing was expensive and time consuming. The cloud makes data dispersion much easier because it shifts the…
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