Addressing the Uncontrolled Proliferation of Unstructured Data with InfiniBox® and Hammerspace

Over the last year, Gartner end users report 30% to 60% growth for their file data, and by 2026 large enterprises will triple their unstructured data capacity across their on-premises, edge, and public cloud locations, compared to 2023.1 In addition, by 2028 Gartner estimates that 70% of file and object data will be deployed on a consolidated, unstructured data storage platform, up from 35% in early 2023. Most importantly, Gartner predicts that all storage products will include cyber storage capabilities focused on active defense from cyber events beyond recovery, up from 10% in early 2023.2

As unstructured data continues to proliferate at unprecedented rates through organizations, the need to manage that data, ensure its security, and provide seamless access to it regardless of its location has become even more important. Infinidat InfiniBox provides a multi-petabyte scale platform for file and block workloads with guaranteed 100% availability, guaranteed performance, and InfiniSafe® cyber recoverability guarantees. Native InfiniBox NAS capabilities include simultaneous dual protocol access via NFS and SMB protocols, filesystem snapshots, compression, replication, WORM, and billion-file scalability for large unstructured data sets. However, customers invariably have unstructured data across other storage types, multiple data centers, and in the public cloud. To help support our customers’ various file access requirements, Infinidat has partnered with Hammerspace to provide sophisticated file indexing and automated data orchestration capabilities. This provides Infinidat customers with a global file system (GFS) and data management system that bridges heterogeneous on premises and cloud storage platforms to better manage their distributed data.