59% reduction in cost & 10X increase in productivity with intelligent data lifecycle management
for one of the largest Fortune 50 energy companies
Business Need
- Implementing Storage Lifecycle Management
- Mitigating risk resulting from Data Sprawl & obsolete technology
- Streamline data management and operations for cost optimization
- Classification of data for identification of critical and dark data
Challenges Faced
- Unstructured Data Growth and Sprawl
- Created Business Risk (Legal and Compliance)
- Created IT Risk (Stressed Production, Backup and HA Systems)
- Non-Critical Data managed as Critical Data
- Lack of data understanding and lifecycle management
- Risk associated with obsolete technology
- Decreased productivity, increased support cost, parts availability
Solution Offered
Leverage Data Dynamics’ Intelligent Data Management platform for:
- Mobility
- Use of automated policy-driven capabilities of StorageX to migrate data across different storage vendors and tiers
- Scan 10s of billions of files
- Analysis
- Use AI/ML to classify data
- Intelligent identification of sensitive data
- Metadata analysis for storage optimization
- APIs for Business Process Integration
Business Impact
- Enhance data understanding
- Data enrichment through file metadata discovery and classification (tagging)
- Remediation of dark and sensitive data
- Cost saving through data classification and storage optimization
- Every 1% of data archival from file to S3 resulted in a reduced cost of $3 million / year
- Data rationalization – optimizing infrastructure use to reduce cost
- 59% cost savings through improved TCO/efficiency for high-risk file storage environments
- 10X increase in productivity
- Eliminate Risk from end of life / out of support environment