It’s that time of year again: If you listen closely, you will hear the constant rhythm of IT organizations in every industry collectively grinding their proverbial gears as they hash out the optimal data management strategy to deal with the ever-increasing mountains of invaluable data stacking up in their data centers or in the cloud. In a perpetually growing, data-rich, multi-vendor environment, IT is tasked with striking the perfect balance between capitalizing on the enormous business value potential of said data and minimizing the considerable cost, risk, and pain involved with potentially insufficient data management solutions for their unstructured data.
