The top-read Komprise blogs in 2024 run the gamut from storage refresh, unstructured data workflows, unstructured data management, data classification, data migration, data tiering, industry use cases and cost saving measures. Be sure to subscribe to our blog to stay up to date on the latest trends in unstructured data management, AI data governance, AI data workflows, sensitive data management, storage cost savings. data tiering, data migration and unstructured data lifecycle management.
1. Best Practices for Data Management during M&A
It would be nice if data management following a merger, acquisition or divestiture deal were as simple as moving a bunch of files from one storage location to another. But it’s not. To minimize risk and maximize efficiency, you need a data transfer plan tailored to the requirements of the business entities that emerge from the deal.
2. Five Mistakes to Avoid When Refreshing Data Storage
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orrester found that 83 percent of decision-makers are hampered in their ability to leverage data effectively due to challenges like outdated infrastructure, teams overwhelmed and drowning in data, and lack of effective data management across on-premises and cloud storage silos. Avoid lock-in and restrictive solutions with these tips.
3. Why Unstructured Data Management Matters: An Industry View
This industry series looks at the petabyte-scale challenges in different sectors, including healthcare, life sciences, media, government, oil and gas, transportation, financial services and legal.
4. Create and Manage Unstructured Data Workflows with Komprise
According to a 2024 study by IBM, nearly half (45%) of companies report that advances in AI tools that make them more accessible are driving AI adoption. The research also found that only 34% are currently training or reskilling employees to work together with new automation and AI tools. There is a clear gap in skills needed to drive results from AI tools, which leads to our release of Komprise Smart Data Workflow Manager.
5. Metadata and Its Role in Unstructured Data Management
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. Understanding and strategically managing metadata as part of your overall data storage strategy has become central to optimizing unstructured data management and data governance practices across the organization.
6. Why File Storage Is Expensive and What to Do About It
Most (94%) of IT leaders report their cloud storage costs are rising and 54% confirm their storage spend is growing faster than overall cloud costs. (Source: Virtana State of Hybrid Cloud Storage 2022) Nearly 30% of cloud spend is wasted and this year, cost savings overtook security as the top enterprise cloud challenge. (Source: Flexera, 2023 State of the Cloud). Read more on the reasons behind high file storage costs and how you can use data management technologies to maximize savings in a hybrid cloud environment.
7. Cracking the Code for Unstructured Data Classification
System-generated metadata includes information about when the data was created, who created it, its type, its size, when it was last accessed and when it was last modified. This helps IT managers classify data by the department it belongs to and identify rarely accessed data as ready for archiving and tiering to lower-cost storage destinations. IT professionals can also search based on data types, such as video or medical imaging files, which may be consuming too much storage (and budget) and require action such as migration. For additional unstructured data classification, it’s important to enrich metadata using tools that can crack open file contents to search for keywords or data types. This is especially useful to find the right data sets for AI.
8. Future Proof Your Unstructured Data
Data is taking up more budget, as it should, because organizations in all sectors are becoming data-driven operations. Yet you don’t want to waste money if you can avoid it. No matter what you’re doing with your data, every company should try and avoid vendor lock-in. The options to manage data are continually changing. At some point you will have to bring all the data back and rehydrate it before moving to another solution and this can be very expensive. Komprise can help you break lock-in and move file data to the cloud in its native format. You can switch vendors including Komprise, as you see fit.
9. Migrate to NetApp 27X Faster With Komprise
Komprise allows you to analyze your multi-vendor NAS footprint across any NFS and SMB storage – across your data centers and clouds. You can analyze a mixed environment that has some NetApp, EMC Isilon, Windows File Servers, and any other NFS or SMB storage. Understand your data and its usage, and plan exactly what data you want to migrate to the cloud – both to NetApp CVO on AWS, Azure, and Google or ANF. Once you know what you want to move, you can choose to either migrate the data or replicate the data via Komprise into CVO or ANF.
10. Optimizing Pure Storage FlashBlade
Komprise Intelligent Tiering for Pure Storage customers delivers several benefits that help them get more from their Pure investments. Those benefits include: different tiering policies for different types of data; eliminates rehydration; access data in native format; access data from any tier without going to the source.
