Document # TCO2017022 v2, August 2017 Page 2 of 15
Catalyst For Backup to Disk
The Explosive Growth of Unstructured Data
Data that is neatly organized in a database management system is commonly referred to as structured data,
while data that is not managed with a database is oen referred to as unstructured data. Data storage
priories are being changed by billions of new internet connected device such as sensors, watches,
smartphones, and cameras, which are spewing trillions of unstructured data les.
Although the unstructured data is hardly ever accessed, if at all, an oine backup copy is not good enough.
The data must be stored online because it is grist for the mill of big data analycs engines inside today’s
business intelligence applicaons and tomorrow’s machine learning applicaons. The result is IT
organizaons are using backup soware to ship mountains of cold data to online archives. The priority for
applicaon environments using unstructured data is to minimize storage costs while meeng the growth in
requirements for capacity.
The Growth of Unstructured Data & Requirement for Online Archive
Unstructured Data—The priority for storage is
lowering costs for infrequently accessed data
Structured Data—The priority for storage is highest
performance for frequently accessed data
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