Get Control Over Unstructured Data
InformationWeek, Tuesday, March 4th, 2025
The No. 1 data management problem today is coping with the 80% of data that is unstructured. It's time for IT to define a methodology.
Worldwide, data is generated at a daily rate of 402.7 million terabytes, and roughly 80% coming into enterprises is unstructured. By 'unstructured,' we mean data that is not organized into recognizable and parsable record lengths that have established keys into the data.
Instead, unstructured data could come in the form of monolithic video or audio recordings, photos, CAD drawings, e-mails, hard-copy documents, X-rays and MRIs, social media posts, or even the jibberish from telecommunications and network device handshakes and exchanges.