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Counterpoint Research estimated the storage capacity requirement for autonomous vehicles to balloon over 2TB in the next decade
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Innovations
ZONED STORAGE
Addresses data center scale with increased capacity, better QoS with lower TCO
Data Protection & Management: Driving Business Continuity
HOW DATA PROTECTION DRIVES VALUE
Data Protection Is Essential for Business Success
Your business relies on data as today’s opportunities are won and lost based on the quality of information that decision makers have available. Whether it’s transactional data that generates revenue, operational data that drives business efficiencies, big data that delivers future value and intelligence, or fast data that enables actionable insights in real time, uninterrupted access to captured data is paramount. The loss of access to any data has the potential to cripple any company.
By deploying an effective data protection scheme, organizations can help ensure 24/7 data access, drive faster decision making, accelerate product innovation, develop new revenue streams, and deliver business continuity, so the data center will continue to function regardless of hardware failures, localized or widespread service outages, or even natural disasters.
$300,000+ Per Hour
81% of enterprises say the cost per hour of downtime exceeds $300K on average1
35% More Access
35% respondents of a survey would access old files and photos more if they had easy access2
$125B by 2023
The global data protection market is expected to reach $125.8 billion in revenue by 2023 at a 14.1% CAGR3
Being able to respond to market opportunities at all times yields a considerable competitive advantage. Even small amount of downtime can have compounding effects that can bring business to a halt. As the amount of data stored by each business continues to multiply, having a robust data protection regime is essential for long-term business success.
SOURCE: NARAYAN VENKAT, VICE PRESIDENT, DATA CENTER SYSTEMS, WESTERN DIGITAL
MANAGING THE DATA EXPLOSION
Traditional Storage Systems Are No Longer Sufficient for Protecting Petabyte-Scale Data
All sized businesses are faced with massive volumes of digital content being generated from much larger assets that continue to grow in size and density. They are further challenged by how to efficiently manage and extract value from it. Petabyte-scale storage architectures and new data-intensive formats are required to address the creation, manipulation, and transmission while also enabling data to be mined in the future, with the hope of finding additional intelligence or value. As such, all sized businesses are looking at object storage and cloud to provide a viable solution.
DRIVING BUSINESS CONTINUITY WITH DATA
Western Digital Offers a Portfolio of Products that Deliver Unified Data Management and Protection
Backup
BACKUP
Modernize Backup Using Cloud Object Systems
The proliferation of dedicated backup targets has created major challenges managing inefficient silos of data, expensive hardware refresh cycles, and increased risk of data loss.
By deploying an object-based private or hybrid cloud as a backup target, organizations can significantly reduce hardware and operational costs, while preserving their backup software investments.
COST-EFFECTIVE CLOUD OBJECT SYSTEM FOR BACKUP
Ultrastar storage platforms can be deployed to support backup server expansion or combined with object storage software to deliver the durability, scalability, and simplicity required to store, manage, and access today’s rapidly growing data volumes.
Rethinking Backup and Long-Term Retention with a Unified Global Storage Infrastructure
IT organizations are modernizing their backup operations with a unified solution that can dramatically improve performance, flexibility, and overall economics.
Archive / Long term Retention
ARCHIVE, LONG-TERM RETENTION
Tired of Dealing with the Hassles of Tape?
Magnetic tape has been around for decades and considered the most cost-effective method for archiving or long-term data retention. Yet, many companies are switching from tape due to the challenges created when dealing with media life, data integrity, and slow data access.
Companies are keeping data longer and looking to monetize it using analytics and artificial intelligence. An object-based private or hybrid cloud offers instant access to data and in a more agile, flexible, and cost-effective solution than tape.
52%
Lower TCO
Up to 52% lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) vs. tape4
80%
Lower Management Overhead
Up to 80% less management overhead vs. tape4
OBJECT-BASED STORAGE THAT RIVALS THE COST OF TAPE
Ultrastar storage platforms can be combined with object storage software to deliver the durability, scalability, and simplicity required to store, manage, and access today’s rapidly growing data volumes.
Rethinking Long-Term Retention with a Unified Global Storage Infrastructure
Modernize backup and archival operations with a unified global storage infrastructure.
Intelligent Data Management
INTELLIGENT DATA MANAGEMENT
Cut the Cost and Effort of Managing Data
The majority of unstructured data stored by organizations is cold, yet it is stored and managed on expensive primary storage systems. Data management approaches were not designed to handle this volume of data, making it easier to leave the data in place.
New intelligent automatic policy-based data management solutions make it easy to analyze and move cold data from primary NAS to more cost-effective storage. Transparent tiering of data to a cloud object system can significantly reduce cost, yet maintain access to the data as normal.
CONSOLIDATE STORAGE TIERS AND IMPROVE EFFICIENCY
Ultrastar storage platforms can be combined with object storage software to deliver the durability, scalability, and simplicity required to store, manage, and access today’s rapidly growing data volumes.
Transparently Extend Performance and Capacity with Intelligent Data Management
Intelligent data management creates a complete data management solution for large-scale business and technical data environments.
Data Protection Simplicity
DATA PROTECTION SIMPLICITY
Proactive Cloud-based Analytics Ensures Data Protection
Data protection is essential. Beyond the obvious of ensuring multiple recovery copies of your data, having to never recover due to preemptive elimination of potential data loss is even better.
Add to this expert knowledge of how a storage platform is working across deployments, and you can simplify your data protection regimen, while ensuring continuous access to your data.
CLOUD ANALYTICS AND SUPPORT
Object storage solutions are used collect millions of data points from systems deployed around the world, capturing system health and performance to help you identify, and preemptively eliminate, component or system failures before they occur.
Data Protection & Management Solutions — Data Protection Simplicity
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INDUSTRY EXPERTS AGREE
Data management is hard, and with the massive growth of data this task is becoming even more difficult. But, data growth is also making data management an imperative. Organizations need to figure out a way to better manage their data so that it is always available yet stored cost effectively. Because if they can’t, that data, the very thing they are counting on to drive their business forward, will bury them.
SOURCE: THE DATA MANAGEMENT IMPERATIVE VS. IT REALITY BY GEORGE CRUMP (STORAGE SWITZERLAND, 6/11/18)
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Disclosures
1. Source: Cost of Hourly Downtime Soars: 81% of Enterprises Say it Exceeds $300K On Average, Information Technology Intelligence Consulting, 8/2/16) 2. Source: America has a massive digital hoarding problem by Marie Haaland (New York Post, 11/9/17) 3. Source: Global Data Protection Market (2017-2023) Forecast to Reach $125.8 Billion Growing at a CAGR of 14.1%, Press Release (Markets and Markets, 3/22/18) 4. Source: WDC Commvault TCO Analysis available upon request.
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