“What data do you have? And can I access it?” Those may seem like simple questions for any data-driven enterprise. But when you have billions of files spread across petabytes of storage on a parallel file system, they actually become very difficult questions to answer.
“Oh, wow, the IT department charges us $11,000 a month for data storage. Why don’t we put some data on cheaper storage? Mark, why don’t you look into that?” the principal investigator asks the postdoc who just joined the team.
Starfish Storage, the leader in metadata-driven unstructured data management, proudly celebrates its 10-year anniversary. Coinciding with this milestone, the company also announces it now manages well over an exabyte of capacity across its client base. This includes eight of the world’s top 10 pharmaceutical firms, seven of the eight Ivy League universities, and Department of Energy supercomputing sites.
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Unstructured data is the fastest growing data around. It’s increasing at a compound annual growth rate of 61%, according to IDC, and will account for 80% of worldwide data by 2025.