Tag: data storage

May 12, 2023

We live in a data-driven economy, but what lies beneath the data is hidden gold. Metadata, or data that describes data, delivers many benefits for storage and IT managers. Yet metadata is complex, vast, and distributed across hybrid cloud infrastructure. […]

April 18, 2023

The ability to integrate data successfully into a single platform can be a challenge. Well-integrated data makes it easy for the appropriate staff to access and work with it. Poorly integrated data creates problems. Data integration can be described as […]

March 29, 2023

Amid the economic uncertainty that has gripped 2023, IT leaders are scrambling to find ways to reduce costs. Enterprise storage is one of those areas that the IT team can look at for substantial cost savings without sacrificing availability, reliability, […]

March 10, 2023

The future of data is small. As organizations grapple with ever-increasing amounts of data, the limits of the big data movement are becoming clear. Over the last two decades, big data has provided benefits in the form of cutting-edge software […]

February 8, 2023

A successful data strategy generally requires the use of certain key components. Most businesses have invested in some form of Data Management, but all too often different sections of a business aren’t terribly well coordinated. A data strategy can be […]

February 6, 2023

The World Economic Forum has released its Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2023 report, and it highlights how things have changed when it comes to data security and cybersecurity in general. It cites the inevitability of more cyber laws and regulations in […]

January 25, 2023

Over the past few years, enterprise data architectures have evolved significantly to accommodate the changing data requirements of modern businesses. The emergence of advanced data storage technologies, such as cloud computing, data hubs, and data lakes, makes us question the […]

January 23, 2023

All enterprise data ends up on storage systems, but if an enterprise storage solution does not have the cyber storage resilience to combat a cyberattack, the C-suite and the IT team are leaving the organization severely exposed. This realization is […]

January 4, 2023

The rising popularity of cloud data architecture signals a central theme: Global businesses in the coming years will migrate their data center operations fully to the cloud, as it offers some inherent advantages over on-premise set-ups. Business survival in the […]

October 5, 2022

The enterprise storage estate is one of the areas where organizations can easily automate and substantially reduce costs without sacrificing application performance, availability, or cyber resilience. Automation involves the simplification of the data center infrastructure by consolidating the storage environment. […]

October 4, 2022

A Data Strategy roadmap is a step-by-step guide to transform a business from its current state into the desired business organization. It is a more detailed, researched version of the Data Strategy and communicates when and how to implement specific […]

September 22, 2022

Enterprise data storage professionals are increasingly finding themselves at the center of business discussions: finding important files, showing departmental usage, recalling files from archives for an audit or new research, moving distinct data sets into the cloud to import into […]

September 14, 2022

The world is going multi-cloud. Enterprises are leveraging the benefits of multi-cloud services to improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, and drive faster innovation. What does this mean for data privacy? With data residing in multiple locations, it’s more important than […]

August 31, 2022

In part one of this series, we discussed data center migration challenges, migration best practices, and the importance of planning. In this part, we break the migration process into six steps and detail each to help you create a comprehensive […]

August 31, 2022

Data Management is the practice of gathering, organizing, securing, and storing data for an organization so it can be analyzed for business decisions. Data Management helps minimize potential errors by setting processes and policies around its usage and building confidence […]

August 9, 2022

A Data Management plan (DMP) is normally a one- or two-page summary, outlining how data will be handled during a research project, and after it has been completed. The goal of a Data Management plan is to consider the many […]

July 29, 2022

Businesses face the need to store ever-larger volumes of information, across a growing number of formats. Business data is no longer confined to structured data in orderly databases or enterprise applications. Instead, businesses may need to capture, store and work […]

July 25, 2022

One of the challenges many organizations face is managing unstructured data’s impact within today’s diverse multi-cloud and multi-vendor infrastructure environments. For IT professionals, it can be difficult to know where to start, mainly because there are many storage technology companies […]

July 11, 2022

Today, one of the most cutting-edge technologies is data fabric. Data fabric and data management can significantly improve business functions by connecting siloed data and making it accessible across divisions and workgroups. Utilizing a specialized architecture, on-premises data can be […]

May 24, 2022

Data warehouses have advanced in the past few years, adding multiple enhancements and new capabilities. A data warehouse stores business data from a variety of applications and databases. It acts as a single repository, which an organization can access with […]