Burgeoning Unstructured Data Stores Demand Organizations Tackle Data Protection Differently

Every organization possesses and manages unstructured data somewhere in its IT infrastructure. Unfortunately, many do not know how much they have or even where it resides. Further, more organizations now plan to adopt and implement artificial intelligence (AI) that will create new unstructured data management and protection challenges. Unstructured data now comes from multiple sources. Emails and files generated by humans may now only represent a small percentage of the data. Organizations may now also need to account for machine-generated data, telemetry data, video surveillance data, and data sourced from the internet. These create burgeoning petabyte-scale unstructured data stores that…