The Root Cause of Unstructured Data Problem Is Not What You Think

AIS, through its Expedite product, will show the root cause of the unstructured data problems lie with its very definition. What business users think of as unstructured data is not a “pile-of-files” but information assets, an asset being a set of files, metadata, logs, emails, people, and rules that collectively, constitute an entity meaningful to the business. Users work with contracts, quotes, invoices, engineering reports, etc., not strings of bytes.

This new perspective forces a fundamental shift for storage from essentially being ignorant of what it is storing to knowing what the data is, how it is used, who needs to use it, etc. By layering information asset management over the existing storage infrastructure, this precious, new-found knowledge dramatically changes the way storage functions are funded, implemented, configured, triggered, integrated, and valued. Currently impossible functions turn out to be relatively straightforward with this new view of unstructured data.

Learning Objectives

The root cause of unstructured data problems lie with its very definition
Users work with sets of information assets, not strings of bytes
Forces shift storage to know what it is storing
The new vision changes the game for storage functions