Effective Data Management

Managing Unstructured Data

• Unstructured data includes audio, video, emails, digital images, social networking data and more.
• The rapid growth in the amount and variety of unstructured data places new burdens on business, including ever-increasing backup costs and server sprawl.
• Managing unstructured data is the greatest storage challenge for many organisations.

Unstructured Data Growth - Trends and Observations

IT professionals responding to a recent survey listed unstructured data as their organisation’s biggest storage environment challenge.  As the amount of unstructured data expands, so do storage concerns.  Industry analysts agree that by using advanced storage technologies, organisations can leverage insights from unstructured data to gain a competitive advantage.

With unstructured data continuing to grow, you may need a strategy for storing and leveraging this information. Abtech are partnered with HDS to offer a single, integrated platform to manage all your structured and unstructured data.  With their straightforward strategies to help you Archive, Back up, and Consolidate (A-B-C), you can move from expensive silos of stored data to a streamlined, cloud-ready solution.  Abtech can provide a solution utilising the latest technologies from HDS which will simplify management, reduces risks and supports innovation for years to come.

Here’s what leading analysts say about unstructured data growth:

IDG: Unstructured data represents the majority of growth in data volume-up 56% CAGR since 2005.

IDG: By 2010, 90% of all data in the digital universe was unstructured.

Gartner: Data volume is set to grow 800% over the next 5 years and 80% of it will reside as unstructured data.

Reduce Cost, Complexity and Manage Growth

• Stop struggling to keep up with the growth of unstructured data, stay within budget, optimise investments and deliver the necessary services quickly.
• Reduce the cost of storing and protecting data, consolidate silos to streamline management, mitigate data risk, and make IT more agile.
• Take advantage of our integrated file and content portfolio to help your enterprise better manage the proliferation of your unstructured data.

Strategies to Archive, Back Up, Consolidate (A-B-C)

Employ a few simple IT strategies to significantly simplify your IT environment and reduce costs. HDS utilise “Archive first, Back up less, Consolidate more” (A-B-C) strategies help to ensure you have the right infrastructure to scale for the future while managing and governing information throughout its lifecycle.

Archive first—reduces the cost of storing data.

Back up less—reduces the cost of protecting data.

Consolidate more—allows you to do more with less.

Distributed IT efficiency—enables more effective IT management at remote and branch offices.

Enable e-discovery and compliance—mitigates data risk.

Facilitate cloud—increases IT agility.

Top features and benefits

Reduce the cost of storing data by placing data on the most appropriate media based on the value of the information.

Reduce the cost of protecting data by using disk-based data protection thus avoiding tape backups.

Do more with less by consolidating silos to streamline management and operations as well as maximising utilisation and efficiency.

Manage distributed IT more effectively by adopting a centralised strategy for data collection, protection and management.

Mitigate data risk by understanding what data you have, its value, who can access it and how it should be managed throughout its lifecycle.

Downloads

Click here to download the HDS brochure on ABC Strategies for File and Content Management

Click here to download the HDS File and Content Solutions Portfolio

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