The global economic outlook for 2023 is tepid at best; inflation is waning but threats of recession still loom heavy in many countries. IT leaders will place their bets on strategic cloud and analytics investments – two areas where there is ample proof of cutting costs and delivering insights that can create new value from unstructured data, leveraging the affordable power of cloud compute. In fact, 65% of organizations plan to or are already delivering unstructured data to their big data analytics platforms, according to a survey about unstructured data management conducted earlier this year. The survey also predicts a sharper focus on intelligent automation, metrics gathering, FinOps, and AI to manage data more precisely to save money and meet a myriad of business objectives.
