Storage Frequently asked questions-Unstructured Data FAQ:

Frequently asked questions-Unstructured Data FAQ

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What are some of the other options available to help manage unstructured data?

FAQ - Eliminate unnecessary data from your production storage. This typically involves moving the unnecessary data to a different tier or deleting the data entirely...
What are some of the hidden costs of managing unstructured data?

FAQ - Well, the obvious costs are storage capacity and backup capacity; you keep growing, you keep adding storage. But, searches of existing files can cost quite a bit too...
Should I use data deduplication to manage unstructured data?

FAQ - Absolutely; there are two areas where data deduplication, or single-instance storage, can help...

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What is unstructured data and how is it different from structured data in the enterprise?

FAQ - What we're really doing is designating our data as structured or unstructured. Let's start with structured data...
What are some of the biggest challenges with unstructured data?

FAQ - By far, the volume of data has to be the biggest challenge...
Where are some of the biggest sources of unstructured data in the enterprise?

FAQ - There are actually many sources of unstructured data, which accounts for much of the data growth that we've seen in the enterprise...

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How can a company set retention policies with such a glut of unstructured data?

FAQ - It depends; there are no easy answers to this. There are a number of initiatives that a company should undertake, including disaster recovery, business continuity planning, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and data security...
What is the impact of unstructured data on backup and restore and disaster recovery in general?

FAQ - As data volumes grow, there's a bigger problem meeting recovery time objectives. We depend on our data, and we have set recovery times for our systems that are zero (no downtime) in some cases, though most companies set recovery times from eight to 24...
Are there regulatory compliance issues related to unstructured data?

FAQ - The most important issue is legal discovery. You may not know what you have or how to find it, so it can be very difficult to find the files that may be required by a court of law...