The cascade of information flowing into organizations is growing at an incredible pace. The data is an exploding confusion of files, files, and even more files, most of it unstructured and ranging from emails to pictures, videos, and rich media. An increasing number of organizations struggle with the challenge of storing this veritable flood. It’s a chore to back up and even more of a chore to protect. The truth is, if you strain to store it, you probably don’t know what’s in the data, how to classify it, or what is necessary to protect it. This problem impacts the entire organization, not just the IT department.

This scenario is especially true where some of the principal assets of an organization are digital. For example, the health care industry handles complex 2D & 3D imaging, enormous amounts of patient data, financial records, and more. Some health care organizations deal with multiple petabytes of data on the datacenter floor every month.

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