Waking up to benefits of copy data management software

Have you ever spaced out during a meeting only to come to after hearing something arresting — a proposal or possibility that might really affect how you do your job? Rosetta Stone’s Mark Moseley has — and it led to his purchase of copy data management software.

Moseley is vice president of IT at the language-learning company, which overhauled its business from shipping compact discs that teach Italian, French, Chinese and other tongues to offering courses online, which people can access on their PCs or smartphones.

Rosetta Stone’s growing number of online offerings resulted in an explosion in the amount of data that has to be stored. In fact, Moseley said, he was running out of floor space in his data center for servers that could hold all the data.

A big piece of the problem was a profusion of copy data — that’s the duplicate copies of data that backup software and other applications churn out and then stash on physical servers.