Whitepapers
Value, Risk and Potential
Data Dynamics, in collaboration with 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, created a whitepaper, ‘ Value, Risk and Potential – A Modern Approach to Managing Data’ that describes how businesses can adopt a data-driven strategy…
Metadata Analytics for Infrastructure Assessment
Most organizations have some kind of Infrastructure monitoring. This can include not only availability but also capacity and throughput. These are mission-critical and cannot be overlooked. However, these systems cannot give organizations a picture of what data is…
Simplifying Data Governance in a Hybrid Cloud Era
Why is Data Governance Relevant Today? The explosive growth of data unstructured data in particular, is the most defining characteristic of today’s generation. For the digital enterprise, data is equated to gold because of the untapped value it potentially holds to…
Hybrid Cloud: Making Healthcare More Interoperable and Optimized
Shamans and healers in ancient times used ritualistic practices with therapeutic methods to treat illnesses. For the treatment of their patients, they relied on prayer, acupuncture, and herbs. Since then, a completely new universe has emerged within the healthcare…
Migration into the Cloud: Useful Strategies for the Best Results
Executive Summary Data Dynamics has worked with various customers from diverse industries to accelerate their digital journeys. With more than a decade of experience, we have seen the Cloud revolutionize the IT industry. The Cloud is being widely adopted for its…
Mitigating Data Privacy Risk Using Insight AnalytiX
Efficiently Identifying PII in Unstructured Data Using Analytics The Growing Problem with PII In today’s world, driven by the use of big data and online transactions, the use of PII (Personal Identifiable Information) has exploded, which has created major concerns…
Creating Tiered Storage Architectures with Data Dynamics Storagex and Microsoft Distributed File System (DFS)
As an organization’s storage continues to grow, there is a need for solutions that enable proper classification of data so storage policies can be aligned with business priorities. An organization can reduce its total cost of storage ownership by transferring…
Building a Migration Factory for Enterprises to Leverage Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments
Enterprises are increasing their use of cloud storage to keep up with the exponential growth of unstructured data, with many companies using multiple cloud providers. While using multiple cloud providers is reasonable for a number of different objectives…
The Future of NAS is Object
If you have been around the computer industry long enough, you have witnessed multiple major shifts in technology. If you were working in the 1970’s you remember the major shift from mainframe computing to workstations. In the 1980’s, we witnessed the…
Storage Optimization Strategy with Unified Unstructured Data Management Platform
Managing unstructured data seems to be an easy task, but it’s not and people who run such environments at any scale recognize that pain and try to adopt best practices and comprehensive solutions. Analysts confirm that data grows by 30 to 60% per year depending on…
Why NAS File Migrations Don’t Have To Be A Nightmare Anymore
File migration and mobility is rapidly escalating. There are always new and seemingly endless requirements to move files between systems, locations, applications, and users. New projects come up even before old ones complete. The three most crucial…
Migrating Unstructured File Data Using Data Dynamics StorageX
A significant portion of enterprise IT budgets is used to keep existing infrastructure running. Increasing operational costs results in a slowdown in innovation and adoption of new technologies. To stay competitive, IT executives are being asked to lower their run…
Six Functions to Improve Unstructured Data Management
As data storage became the central element supporting all digital business, managing this business asset became a paramount skill. To reach new operations efficiency levels, storage managers require an enterprise class product to cover a wide data landscape spread…
Achieving Infrastructure Optimization and Business Cost Efficiencies in a Hybrid IT Environment with Unified Unstructured Data Management
The current state of the enterprise storage landscape today is more varied, data-intensive, and geographically dispersed than ever before. This will continue to accelerate at an unprecedented rate. According to Gartner, large enterprises will triple their…
Storage Optimization
Implementing Data Dynamics’ StorageX software in your NAS storage environment will help you save money and create a more streamlined and efficient storage environment. This document describes the various methods and use case outcomes using StorageX for…
File Server Consolidation Using Data Dynamics Storagex
The proliferation of application files and user-generated documents is driving continued expansion of network storage requirements within enterprise organizations. A common solution to this problem has been to add more file servers and storage, a strategy that may…
Your Ultimate Guide to Effective Data Migration
A data migration is a crucial operation within any enterprise and failure can be catastrophic. Data migration projects have historically a tendency to fail. According to Bloor Research, as many as 60% do not succeed. What are the characteristics of the 40% who…
Backup optimization
Backing up data is a process that no one is aware of until they need a restore. Hopefully, you rarely do. The reality of the backup environment is that it costs your organization money. The more data you have, the more you have to backup and the…
Universal Unstructured Data Orchestration
Most enterprise data remains ‘at rest’. Is that bad thing? Well that depends on what that data is. Most companies only know their data at a high level. An example of this is they have finance database or the marketing file share. We know…
IT Must Own the Business’s Data Strategy
With the rise of digital business initiatives, the role of data has become much more important. Nearly half (49%) of the organizations that ESG surveyed stated that data is their business, and another 31% expected to offer data-centric products and services in the…