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BUCKLE UP
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 and Government: Connecting with Citizens
HOW DATA CONNECTS
Data is Connecting Governments with Citizens
Governments rely on advanced technologies to drive real-time communications with their citizens and address issues and challenges that can affect social and economic change. They have an obligation to remain accessible, connected, and accountable to the public, and rely heavily on digital services and communications to make that happen.
Through AI and machine learning, data analytics delivers more immediate and actionable insights. Insights can predict traffic congestion or improve task flows, sort data more efficiently, and even facially recognize citizens - all leading to better decisions, smarter public services, and operational efficiencies that improve citizen relations, safety, and quality of life.
$10.6 Billion
The government applications market is expected to reach $10.6 billion by 20211
The fact that data is growing came as no surprise to even the newest of IT personnel, but the rate at which that data is growing is catching even the most veteran IT professionals off guard. This is especially true in the IT departments for state and local governments who, thanks to the need to store new types of digital assets for record lengths of time, are facing a data epidemic in their facilities. The challenge is that these agencies have limited budget dollars to provide their IT departments to tackle these problems. State and local government IT needs an innovative approach to cost effectively deal with the problem.
SOURCE: NEW STRATEGIES TO CONTROL THE DATA EPIDEMIC IN STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT BY GEORGE CRUMP (STORAGE SWITZERLAND, 1/8/14)
HOW DATA FUELS SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE
Fast Analysis: Insights for Social and Economic Change
As government agencies deploy more IoT sensors, they collect more data at the edge in real time and rapidly process big data for the future. Understanding the value and intelligence extracted from data enables real-time decisions and actionable insights that have both an economic and social impact on governments, as well as the public they serve.
THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC POSSIBILITIES OF DATA
Western Digital Offers an Expansive Portfolio of Products that Connect Governments/Agencies with their Citizens, Improve Efficiencies, Expedite Services and Drive Actionable Insights for Social Change
Backup
BACKUP
Modernize Government Backup with Cloud Object Systems
Many government agencies today are mandated to deliver more efficient and smarter public services, while improving cost and transparency across agencies. Compliance requires the transformation of their current data protection infrastructure. And due to the demands of increasing data volumes and expanding governance requirements, using dedicated backup appliances and tape systems is nearly impossible.
By deploying an object-based private cloud as a backup target, agencies can achieve their mandates, while delivering the same or better efficiencies as the public cloud.
COST-EFFECTIVE STORAGE 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 Private or Hybrid Cloud Storage
Organizations are modernizing their backup operations with a unified solution that can dramatically improve performance, flexibility, and overall economics.
Archiving
ARCHIVING
Tired of Dealing with the Hassles of Tape?
Many agencies are rethinking the role of archiving and long-term retention by deploying more accessible and efficient solutions for often requested records. This approach allows agencies to produce documentation when needed and increase productivity, while fostering better transparency and collaboration.
Cloud object systems offer a flexible, scalable, pay-as-you go approach that helps keep costs down with virtually instant retrieval. The solution allows data storage for long periods of time more efficiently and cost effectively than traditional methods.
52%
Lower TCO
Up to 52% lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) vs. tape2
80%
Lower management overhead
Up to 80% less management overhead vs, tape3
DEPLOY OBJECT STORAGE FOR LONG TERM ARCHIVE
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.
The Power of Cloud at the Cost of Tape
A modern approach to archiving and long-term data retention and management that delivers the benefits of cloud at the cost of tape.
Intelligent Data Management
INTELLIGENT DATA MANAGEMENT
Cut the Cost and Effort of Managing Data
The majority of unstructured data stored by many government organizations is cold, yet it is stored and managed on expensive primary NAS systems. Data management approaches were not designed to handle this volume of data, making it easier to leave the data in place. The cost of continuing to expand these systems is prohibitive.
New intelligent automatic policy-based data management solutions make it easy to analyze and automatically 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 instant access to the data as if it never moved.
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
Cloud object system and intelligent data management create a complete data management solution for large-scale business and technical data environments.
Private Clouds
PRIVATE CLOUDS
Governments’ Need for On-premises Private Clouds
The world has moved from individual servers to public clouds to maximize efficiency and minimize cost. But governments have unique security, reporting, and legal requirements, which make it difficult for them to move to public clouds. So they’ve opted to build on-premises private clouds.
Operating private clouds requires a large initial investment for hardware and for the ongoing expenses of operating those machines and decommissioning them at the end of their life.
Features such as self-encryption, enterprise class warranties, and low operating costs are critical to the success of these deployments.
95.7 Billion
Dollars/Year
Federal government IT spending per year3
A TRUSTED PARTNER FOR GOVERNMENT IT
Governments need a wide portfolio of solutions to enable their private clouds. Our self-encrypting helium hard drives and SAS SSDs ensure security during operation and retirement of the devices. Our NVMe drives provide the speed necessary for accelerating on-premises clouds.
Government Solutions — Private Clouds
For more information regarding Private Clouds, please talk to an expert or send a message using the links below.
GOVERNMENT AGENCIES AGREE
In a single day, the USPS processes and delivers more than 500 million mail pieces, relying on multiple datasets and tools to analyze operational efficiencies that better predict the resources and workloads needed to meet future demands and improve mail delivery.
SOURCE: HOW YOU CAN USE DATA ANALYTICS TO CHANGE GOVERNMENT, A GOVLOOP GUIDE, 2016
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Disclosures
1. Source: Top 10 Government Software Vendors and Market Forecast 2016-2021 by Miso Markovski (Apps Run The World, 1/24/18) 2. Source: Western Digital TCO Analysis (available upon request) 3. Source: Information Technology Budget, Whitehouse.gov, FY18
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