Datadobi announced enhancements to its multi-vendor, multi-cloud
unstructured data management platform StorageMAP. The 6.3 release
introduces the ability to copy network-attached storage (NAS) data to any
S3-compatible object storage system. The new file-to-object copy functionality
adds to StorageMAP's ability to help IT leaders archive, pipeline, and replicate
file data to S3.
Unstructured data makes up 80% or more of enterprise
data and is growing by 55% to 65% per year, making it difficult
for companies to keep up with unstructured data management efforts. The
complexity of today's heterogeneous storage environments has caused 95% of organizations to cite the need to
manage unstructured data as a problem for their business.
With StorageMAP 6.3, companies can create a
copy of file data on a cost-effective object storage server or service within
different geographies, tech stacks, or networking providers. This enables
organizations to archive aging and/or redundant, obsolete, and/or trivial (ROT)
data to less expensive storage, pipeline data to the cloud for running
cloud-native analytics and AI/ML applications against the data, or maintain a
safe copy of data on heterogeneous storage operating systems (OS) helping protect
against OS specific bugs or hacks.
The update addresses the four main critical
concerns for enterprises:
- Cost Control - Orphaned
data - datasets owned by employees of a company that are inactive but
still enabled on an organization's network or systems - represents a
source of "dark" data consuming valuable capacity on NAS systems. Being
able to move these datasets from NAS systems to S3-compatible object
stores without lock-in allows IT leaders to significantly reduce costs and
free up space on expensive production storage.
- Conformance to Environmental,
Social, and Governance (ESG) Policies - According to 451
Research, 53% of enterprises currently have a
formal ESG program in place or are planning for one. With the new
StorageMAP capabilities, datasets with a higher degree of CO2 emissions
associated with it can be relocated to cleaner storage. In addition, IT
leaders can consolidate a larger number of NAS systems to reduce energy
consumption and CO2
- Risk Reduction - Orphaned
or ROT data can introduce risk to organizations because it is often
unmonitored due to a clear lack of business ownership or excessive aging.
The option of relocating this data from production NAS systems to remote
or cold object storage can help prevent it from being exploited or leaked.
- Maximizing Unstructured Data
Value - The average organization only uses 50% of available data for
decision-making. With StorageMAP's latest release, unstructured
data can be quickly copied to the cloud and analyzed by cloud-native
AI/ML. This allows IT leaders to gain valuable insights into customer
behavior, trends, and more.
"We live in an unstructured data-driven
world. While a valuable asset to a business, the sheer magnitude and growth of
unstructured data across disparate data storage estates brings risk and often
wholly unnecessary costs for companies," said Carl D'Halluin, CTO at Datadobi.
"The new additions to StorageMAP allow IT leaders to manage more of their
unstructured data across on-premises and the cloud, giving companies the
ability to make quick and accurate informed decisions about their data and
where it is stored."