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Businesses are storing more data than ever. How much? According to the Komprise 2022 Unstructured Data Management report, more than half manage 5 petabytes or more of data, compared to less than 40% in 2021. Most (68%) spend more than 30% of their IT budget on data storage, backups and disaster recovery.
How do companies store this data and what are their problems, plans and priorities for managing unstructured data?
Situation: Cloudy with a chance of data
According to the report, the cloud is the dominant storage medium. Nearly half (47%) of respondents said they will invest in cloud network-attached storage (NAS), followed by cloud object storage (43%).
Meanwhile, companies are shifting from simply boosting storage efficiency to providing data services in the cloud, including the ability to leverage file and object data in cloud analytics tools for competitive advantage: 65% of respondents said they invest in unstructured data analytics, with the aim to put more power in the hands of end users.
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A new approach to unstructured data
The ability to initiate and run automated data workflows for different use cases is the leading new approach to unstructured data management.
“IT leaders are realizing that by moving the right data to the cloud in the right way, they can leverage affordable AI [artificial intelligence] and ML [machine learning] tools and extract new value from the petabytes of unstructured data they have stored on expensive data center equipment,” said Krishna Subramanian, co-founder, COO and president of Komprise.
Komprise’s research also found that IT leaders are focusing on unstructured data management as a way to not only cut costs, but protect sensitive data, improve big data analytics, segment data for M&A and policy. to enable data deletion.
The Komprise 2022 Unstructured Data Management Report summarizes the responses of 300 enterprise IT directors, VPs and C-level executives at companies with more than 1,000 employees in the United States and the UK.
Read the full report from Komprise.
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