In an age of globalised markets and the worldwide networking of information and businesses, corporations today often face not insignificant challenges when managing their distributed IT infrastructures.

These challenges include spiralling volumes of data inside the corporation, amongst other problems.

Data represents the foundation for detecting optimisation potentials within the IT infrastructure and deriving sensible measures. However, data in proprietary product development and production are also essential for corporations. In particular, there is extremely sensitive data in these areas, which demand special protection.