$7.5 MN annual TCO saved by implementing intelligent data lifecycle management for dark data
For one of the top 5 integrated healthcare services companies in the world
Business Need
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To implement Data Lifecycle Management
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Mitigate risk resulting from Data Sprawl
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Understanding the data for better accessibility, security and management
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Manage Dark data for cost optimization
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Optimizing File Data storage
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
- Dark Data (Older than 5 years, not used)
- ⅓ of Storage was for files untouched for 5 Years
- ⅘ of files were orphaned
Solution Offered
Implemented Data Dynamics StorageX capabilities.
- Analytics – Metadata scan and file level tagging
- Archive – File to Cloud Object
- Replication – File to File Sync
- Migration – File to File Move/Transform/Security
- APIs for Business Process Integration
Business Impact
- Enhance data understanding
- Enabled File metadata discovery and classification (tagging)
- Identified Dark Data and potential risk exposures
- Enrich metadata for AI, ML
- Annual savings of $2 MM / PB
- TCO savings of $7,500,000 annually
- DC Consolidation Acceleration