3+ Petabytes of Unstructured Data Analyzed, Cleansed, Tiered, and Archived Using a Lightweight Single Data Management Software
for a Fortune 50 multinational automotive company
Business Need
- Getting data insight (metadata) into file share environment
- Data cleansing, tiering and archival after analysis
- Data access management
- Self-service portal for admins to provide access to specific owners of the Shares
- Data storage optimization
Challenges Faced
- More than three petabytes of unstructured data in a NetApp/Isilon File Share Environment
- A dark data sprawl residing across an entire file share environment
- Increasing storage costs due to lack of unstructured data storage optimization
- The missing link between data and business value
- Challenges in ensuring the right access to the right people to the right data
Solution Offered
Data Dynamic’s Unified Unstructured Data Management Platform – StorageX:
- Single and unified software to manage the unstructured data sprawl of more than three petabytes residing on NetApp/Isilon File Share environment
- Assessment, identification, and classification of data for better search and storage optimization
- Custom tagging extended data search results for deep analytics and data tiering
- The automated, policy-based approach for maximized user data access
- Creating an immutable audit log backed by blockchain technology to track the data access activities
- Intelligent data insights for data-driven business and higher governance and risk mitigation
Business Impact
- Metadata-driven data management
- Identified dark data for storage optimization
- Dynamic storage scaling on basis of changing workloads
- Data governance across data silos
- Role-based access and privacy controls
- Data intelligence to modernize the data estate and reduce the data sprawl