Reigning in the wild growth of unstructured data in the Big Data era using fewer resources requires Middle East IT managers to implement an intelligent and modern approach to data management

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, March 11, 2012: One of the big topics around IT discussions these days across the world and here in the Middle East is Big Data. In thinking about today's data center trends - the growth of unstructured data, the universal adoption of virtualization and increasing consolidation - an interesting paradigm is developing. Big Data brings with it a lot of good in terms of potential business value, but also a lot of bad when it comes to the challenges of data management, most notably risk, complexity and cost that can result if it isn't done right. So how do companies deal with Big Data?

Steve Bailey, Regional Operations Director at CommVault Systems says that today's legacy data management tools just aren't up to the task. According to a recent CommVault-sponsored CIO Market Pulse Survey on data protection and management and that polled 111 IT and business management professionals, 42 percent of respondents described their organizations' data management processes as "outdated," and 31 percent called it "chaotic." More than half stated that data searchability and the current level of automated data management is less than adequate.

Overall, those surveyed cited improving operational efficiency, the ability to access and analyze information and flexibility as the top business drivers for investing in data management solutions.

The survey also revealed some interesting information about application integration and the impact of corporate culture on an organization's ability to change solutions, all of which can be found in our latest infographic on the subject.

So what if you could reign in the wild growth of unstructured data in the Big Data era using fewer resources? Managing, protecting and understanding the business value of the data you have can have a tangible impact on business agility and the bottom line.

The advent of Big Data is causing IT to rethink and possibly redesign architectures to accommodate business requirements as data volumes grow. The only way to accommodate such growth is to implement a modern approach to data management. Customers need:

  • A highly scalable repository for unstructured data

  • Protection and archive from a single pass through the data

  • Storage tiering to lower costs

And it all needs to be done from a single management console with application-aware snapshots, replication, data deduplication, encryption, and a range of other built-in features. Every IT vendor out there is trying to stake its claim to be the de facto standard for managing Big Data environments. Vendors who have a unique approach that stands out from competition will have success in controlling the chaos of Big Data.

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About CommVault
A singular vision - a belief in a better way to address current and future data management needs - guides CommVault in the development of Singular Information Management® solutions for high-performance data protection, universal availability and simplified management of data on complex storage networks. CommVault's exclusive single-platform architecture gives companies unprecedented control over data growth, costs and risk. CommVault's Simpana® software suite of products was designed to work together seamlessly from the ground up, sharing a single code and common function set, to deliver superlative Data Protection, Archive, Replication, Search and Resource Management capabilities. More companies every day join those who have discovered the unparalleled efficiency, performance, reliability, and control only CommVault can offer. Information about CommVault is available at www.commvault.com. CommVault's corporate headquarters is located in Oceanport, New Jersey in the United States. 

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