When you think about your data storage, do you think smart? Storage is so much more than just warehousing information. Your data powers the most important emerging technologies, like AI. Having control over your organization’s data layer gives you access to insights and strategies that offer a critical competitive advantage. However, storage can get messy, sprawling across different systems, environments, and regions. If your team is exhausted from dealing with data management inefficiencies, security vulnerabilities, or missed opportunities to use technologies like AI, you’re not alone. The good news is that smarter storage is within reach to help you power your most ambitious IT plans.
Leave data management complexity and pain behind. There’s an option for rethinking how data is stored, managed, and used. Real digital transformation involves more than just upgrading individual parts of your IT infrastructure. Instead, it’s time to make sure that your storage is smart enough to support your boldest and brightest ideas and the applications that make that a reality. What does that look like? You need an intelligent data infrastructure that understands modern workloads, scales across hyperscalers, and keeps pace with the growing needs of data availability and analytics. It’s helpful to think about this as a strategic approach, not just a tech refresh. Companies that are leading the way are shifting from a narrowly focused data storage strategy to an all-encompassing intelligent data strategy.
How does this shift affect your business? Changes reach far beyond managing specific workloads or optimizing isolated systems. Instead, you’re creating a seamless, unified infrastructure to make your data accessible for innovation and driving the highest standards of security and sustainability. You need to build an infrastructure that enables you to innovate, defend, and sustain. Enter the intelligent data infrastructure.
Leveling up your strategic approach to data management starts with modernizing your data center and putting the building blocks of intelligent infrastructure into place to support both innovation and resilience. This approach offers several key benefits.
Eliminate data silos and innovate with your data
Data silos are among the biggest obstacles that enterprises face to getting more out of their data. Data residing in isolated silos creates bottlenecks and hinders innovation. For example, an automotive company that wants to use AI for autonomous vehicle technology needs instant, real-time, and reliable access to all relevant data across different systems, whether stored on premises, in the cloud, or at the edge. Unified data storage solutions, like those offered by NetApp, let your data move freely across an AI pipeline, enabling faster AI model training.
Secure your data across environments and defend your infrastructure
Data security isn’t just an IT concern; it's a strategic priority. Unified data storage offers end-to-end security at the data layer itself, using features like AI-powered threat detection and automated recovery. Imagine a healthcare system that needs to secure patient data while also giving medical research teams seamless access to that data. The solution is a single operating environment that makes data accessible for authorized users while providing robust controls to prevent breaches and enabling quick recovery in case of an attack. By introducing new technologies to accelerate patient care, healthcare teams can remain confident about security at all stages.
Smarter data management for greater sustainability
Sustainability is playing an increasing role in IT in meeting regulatory compliance and aligning with corporate social responsibility (CSR). Optimizing your storage energy consumption can be an important step to meeting carbon and other CSR targets. With unified data storage, you can identify power-hungry systems, take action to reduce your energy consumption, and archive cold data into more sustainable storage solutions. These actions help you achieve environmental goals, and they also result in significant cost savings. What’s good for the environment can also be good for business!
When a global financial firm faced power constraints, reducing the carbon footprint of their data operations became a necessity. NetApp® intelligent data management and energy-optimization solutions helped the firm achieve both sustainability and cost savings.
To build an intelligent data infrastructure that drives innovation, enhances security, and achieves sustainability goals, you need a clear plan.
NetApp unified data storage solutions are designed to help you to fully capture the potential of your data to drive critical business outcomes: innovation, security, and sustainability.
Building an intelligent data infrastructure isn’t just about choosing the right storage. It fundamentally reshapes the way you approach your entire data strategy. When data is stored smarter, businesses can improve operational efficiency, increase security, and make significant strides toward sustainability. With a unified approach to data management, you can take advantage of AI, defend against emerging threats, and meet ambitious sustainability goals.
Are you ready to explore how unified storage solutions can transform your data strategy and drive greater innovation, security, and sustainability? Download our e-book to learn more.
Beth Busenhart is a customer experience maven at NetApp. She has more than 15 years of experience in a variety of dynamic industries, including media, technology, and private equity; the through-line is her passion for delivering innovative technology solutions that transform the customer experience. Beth is a data-driven, strategic thinker who excels at breaking a big vision down into an actionable plan. At NetApp, she enjoys helping customers understand how their IT strategy is crucial to achieving business outcomes. Outside of work she can be found on the ski slopes or a yoga mat.