July - 2013 - issue > View Point
Managing Unstructured Data Still Remains a Challenge
Santosh D’Souza
Director-Technology-NetApp India
The big data market on a global note will reach $12.4 billion in 2013, predicts Visiongain - a big data research firm. Data coming from all the directions will compel the storage industry to provide different kinds of storage media with varied traits of performance and capacity along with less power consumption even in a unified storage environment.
Emerging Trends
Software defined data centers are one of the emerging trends within the industry. We create a supplement to other trends like virtualization, cloud computing and mobility and tries to deliver a combination of storage virtualization, storage abstraction and automation of workflow and processes that involve data to deliver unprecedented amount of agility.
Our recently launched Clustered Data ONTAP has storage virtual machine technology as its heart, which allows us to abstract the operating system from the hardware itself and can be managed by one single instance of Clustered Data ONTAP storage operating system.
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