Why You Need A Plan For Ongoing Unstructured Data Mobility
insideBIGDATA, Saturday, July 8,2023
In the hybrid cloud, AI-enhanced enterprise, unstructured data is everywhere . and growing exponentially. Unstructured data mobility is not a one-time event, but an opportunity to continually right place data to meet organizational needs.
Many enterprise IT leaders are storing petabytes of data, spread across silos in their data centers, at edge locations and in the cloud. Most of this data is unstructured data and stored as files of many types and sizes such as documents, images, video, genomics, IoT and research data.
Unstructured data is expensive to store, protect and manage due to its sheer volume and pace of growth. IT organizations are realizing that since 80% of unstructured data typically gets cold within months of creation, by treating cold data differently, they can cut significant costs without compromising user access. New threats such as ransomware are adding to the urgency of addressing unstructured data management efficiently.