72 multi-cloud organisations in mind . Data protection is a pressing question for businesses and as society experiences a shift towards a hybrid multi-cloud world , the challenge will only increase tenfold . More than 80 % of companies are using a multi-cloud strategy , according to Rightscale ’ s 2018 State of the Cloud report , and on average companies are using up to five private and public clouds at a time . This means data can ’ t be locked away , instead protections need to be at every corner .
The data protection space is rarely static and , in the future , Lent predicts how the task will soon require a new approach which he likens to autonomous vehicles . “ Businesses need to protect their data as it flows from Core to Edge to Cloud . It adds a lot of complexity and I think we ’ ll soon see a shift towards what I call ‘ self-driving data protection ’ whereby we move away from individuals figuring out how to protect each individual asset . Instead , they ’ ll understand how they want the overall business services protected and we ’ ll be able to create systems that could figure out how to do it for them .” On the road ahead ,
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