Across industries, digital transformation is a near-universal goal, but data is what’s really setting the terms — and accelerating the pace — of digitalization. Organizations are collecting unprecedented amounts of data, and they need a means of efficiently storing, accessing, and analyzing all that data in order to deliver business value. Where a typical enterprise once took in structured data from mission-critical applications and stored it away, that same business will now need to handle many new varieties of unstructured data — think sensors, video feeds, and hardware telemetry, to name just a few.
