In 2025, preventing risks from both cyber criminals and AI use will be top mandates for most CIOs. Ransomware in particular continues to vex enterprises, and unstructured data is a vast, largely unprotected asset. AI solutions have moved from experimental to mainstream, with all the major tech companies and cloud providers making significant investments in […]
How Changes to Cloud Egress Fees May – or May Not – Help You Save Money
For years, cloud egress fees – the costs incurred when data moves out of a cloud environment – were like death and taxes. They were unavoidable for any organization that used the cloud. But that has changed over the past few months as major cloud providers Google, Amazon and Microsoft have announced the discontinuation of […]
Unstructured Data Management Predictions for 2024
As unstructured data continues to grow exponentially, it is creating an inflection point for IT leaders. The average enterprise IT organization is managing petabytes of file and object data. This has resulted in high costs for data storage and protection, growing security risks from shadow IT and too many data silos, and the desire to leverage […]
Data Governance in the Age of Generative AI
AI-based business models and products that use generative AI (GenAI) are proliferating across a wide range of industries. The current wave of AI is creating new ways of working, and research suggests that business leaders feel optimistic about the potential for measurable productivity and customer service improvements, as well as transformations in the way that […]
Unstructured Data Management Predictions for 2023
The global economic outlook for 2023 is tepid at best; inflation is waning but threats of recession still loom heavy in many countries. IT leaders will place their bets on strategic cloud and analytics investments – two areas where there is ample proof of cutting costs and delivering insights that can create new value from […]
5 Ways Data Storage IT Pros Enable Business User Self-Service
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 a new analytics environment, and deleting data to satisfy regulations. Meanwhile, these tasks have become […]