Datadobi Unveils StorageMAP 7.0 to Drive Unstructured Data Insights, Empower Decision-Making, and Optimize Hybrid Cloud
June 18 2024 - 8:30AM
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Datadobi, a global leader in Hybrid Cloud Data Services, today
announced the launch of StorageMAP 7.0, featuring new features to
provide deeper insights into unstructured data environments,
facilitate informed decision-making, and enable policy driven data
placement. These advancements are in direct response to the urgent
need for businesses to manage the acute risk, cost, and opportunity
associated with the rapidly increasing volume of unstructured data
that is inundating most enterprises.
The single most significant challenge in managing unstructured
data is its inherent diversity and its detailed variation. This
diversity extends from the data content through the data formats,
data sources, data locations, data users, data owners, data
managers, and more. The value and usage of this unstructured data
varies widely; while regulatory or internal rules govern some data,
some has little value, and some may be damaging or even
illegal.
Taming this diversity in large scale environments is the
continued mission of StorageMAP. The 7.0 updates are a significant
step in its journey to solve the unstructured data challenges of IT
and business leaders alike.
StorageMAP 7.0 features the following capabilities:
Data Insight Enhancements
Getting insights into the nature of unstructured data and
organizing it to make sense to all stakeholders is the foundation
of good data management. Insights and organization provide all
stakeholders with the information needed to make decisions, create
policies, execute actions that implement policies, and monitor
policy effectiveness to achieve stakeholder goals.
For example:
- The IT department needs to understand where the data is
located, how much it costs, and how important it is, and then
relocate it as it ages through its lifecycle.
- Business units want to identify candidate GenAI data and copy
it to a datalake for training, fine-tuning, or augmenting GenAI
models.
- The Compliance Department wants to reduce risk by identifying
and removing or archiving data with no business value.
Managing these diverse goals is complex in large unstructured
data hybrid cloud environments storing billions of files. To
address this, StorageMAP 7.0 includes two new features that help
companies drive critical decision making about their unstructured
data: Custom Dashboards and an Analysis Module.
- Custom Dashboards enable the entire range of
stakeholders to create a library of views of their unstructured
data that is relevant and specific to them. Custom
Dashboards use metadata fields and StorageMAP tags to
visualize, organize, and monitor the data in a single pane of
glass. A Custom Dashboard has a number of key elements that
can be added by the user including point in time charts, series
charts, and lists among others. Data shown on a Custom
Dashboard can be categorized according to, for example, data
ownership, age, last accessed time or any user defined tags such as
data criticality, sensitivity, usefulness, and so on. Additionally,
Custom Dashboards can be exported in MS PowerPoint® format
to easily share with all stakeholders.
- The Analysis Module is the place to explore and analyze
trends in an enterprise’s unstructured data and can also be
customized to specific user needs. An analysis can consist of
multiple layers of filters and classifications that create datasets
matching the criteria of interest. The resulting datasets can then
be used to create charts, tabular output, and other reports. The
results can be included in Custom Reporting Dashboards and
used as input for actions such as migration, replication,
pipelining etc. all carried out within StorageMAP.
Data Mobility Enhancement
With StorageMAP 7.0, Datadobi continues to far outpace all
competition by continuously adding new functionality to its
unequaled armory of complex data mobility solutions. StorageMAP’s
ability has been proven through millions of hours of real-life
runtime in the most complex corporate and government
environments.
StorageMAP 7.0 now supports WORM migrations from IBM COS and
Hitachi HCP Object systems to any S3 systems supporting the S3
Object Lock API. Along with other Object and NAS platforms,
customers with object-based WORM data on these platforms now have
an accurate, scalable, and performant solution to migrate data
while retaining legal hold status and retention dates.
Supporting these two systems specifically was necessary because
these storage vendors were forced to implement their own
proprietary WORM API protocols prior to AWS implementing WORM
functionality in the S3 API.
“We are regularly hearing from clients that unstructured data is
a double-edged sword - they recognize that it represents a
potential wealth of information and a source of value creation
within their organizations, but also that the massive capacity
growth, a lack of enterprise-wide visibility, and difficulty
breaking down silos of file and object data is a major management
problem in a cost- and resource-constrained time,” said Dave
Pearson, Infrastructure Research Vice President at IDC. “Achieving
Service Level Agreements in areas such as data resilience, resource
optimization, data portability, and operational excellence, etc. is
high on IT leaders' priority list. StorageMAP’s new capabilities to
better meet business requirements, decrease vulnerabilities, and
control costs may offer welcome relief for these challenges.”
"StorageMAP 7.0 is revolutionizing the way businesses and
government organizations handle their unstructured data,
transforming it into a powerhouse of strategic advantage,” said
Carl D'Halluin, CTO of Datadobi. “With StorageMAP 7.0, customers
can not only lead but dominate their respective sectors.” He
continued, “No other vendor on the market even comes close to what
we now deliver. Datadobi is the future of unstructured data
management—unrivaled, unparalleled, unmatched."
“Our channel partners are also particularly excited about
StorageMAP 7.0 as it enables them to help their end clients unlock
business potential while overcoming the inherent challenges of
unstructured data, as never before,” said Michael Jack, CRO and
Co-Founder of Datadobi. “And in doing so, our partners are able to
further elevate their trusted advisor standing in an increasingly
competitive landscape, build long-term value-driven relationships
with their clients, and unlock unprecedented opportunities for
dramatic revenue growth.”
StorageMAP 7.0 general availability (GA) is planned for July
2024.
About Datadobi
Datadobi, a global leader in vendor-neutral unstructured data
management, brings order to heterogeneous unstructured storage and
hybrid-cloud environments via its StorageMAP platform. StorageMAP
software allows IT leaders to go beyond data stored to data managed
both on-premises and in the cloud. Datadobi helps enterprises
manage unstructured data growth through the power of visualization,
organization, and action in a single pane of glass. Founded in
2010, Datadobi is a privately held company headquartered in Leuven,
Belgium, with subsidiaries in New York, Melbourne, Dusseldorf, and
London. For more information, please visit https://datadobi.com and
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