The traditional data management approach is resulting in multiple silos of duplicate data. Across applications, there are multiple data services generating tremendous amounts of redundant data copies that utilize valuable storage capacity and a tremendous amount of storage and data management resources. Most companies try to leverage the data in order to increase the performance and accessibility of production data. A radically different approach is required in order to solve the data copy explosion problem: Copy-Data-Management, based on the virtualization of data copies.
