Besides structured data like in database, company also often ‘fought to’ managed ‘messy’ data unstructured data like e-mail, video, picture or another document format. This ‘messy’ data will it seems make the proceeding company inefficient.
The IDC research agency mentioned, was needed at least around 9-10 hours in a week to look for information. Definitely time that for quite a long time this could cause the company slow in taking the decision.
Still according to IDC, in April 2006 the cost was from the ineffective search estimated reached US$ 5,251 per worker per year. For 1,000 workers, the cost was estimated reached US$ 5.25 million.
Moreover the existence of the “messy” data, was really difficult to be found when being needed although in the little number. The number of unstructured datas also made the company often must have big stroge infrastructure.
Hitachi Data System (HDS) offered the method to manage that unstructured data. HDS applied the integrated approach through the file and content services solution.
The solution consisted of Hitachi Data Discovery Suite, Hitachi Essential NAS Platform and Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform 3000 Series as well as the newest version from the Hitachi Content Archive Platform. According to Edwin Lim, Country Manager of Hitachi Data Systems Indonesia, this solution was HDS efforts met he promiseed helped companies in Asia-Pacific to carry out efficiency and the simplification.
“We bring our experience that proved in keep and managed storage block environment and expand that strength to file service to decrease wild data appearance risk, all at once complete operational efficiency,” Edwin promises in press release.