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Seagate’s ‘Rethink Data’ Report Reveals That 68% of Data Available to Businesses Goes Unleveraged
The report also identifies the missing link of data management—DataOps—which can help organizations harness more of their data’s value and lead to better
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nThe report also identifies the missing link of data management—DataOps—which can help organizations harness more of their data’s value and lead to better business outcomes.\n\n FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nSeagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX), a world leader in data storage and management solutions, today released Rethink Data: Put More of Your Data to Work—From Edge to Cloud. The report—based on a survey of 1500 global enterprise leaders, which was commissioned by Seagate and conducted by the research firm IDC—identifies today’s most pressing data management challenges, and solutions to them. It pinpoints the amount of data available to enterprises that goes unused: 68%.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200715005130/en/\n\n“The report and the survey make clear that winning businesses must have strong mass data operations,” says Seagate CEO Dave Mosley. “The value that a company derives from data directly affects its success.”\n\n\nThe most significant findings include:\n\n\n\nData management is increasingly important as data proliferates. IDC projects that over the next two years enterprise data will grow at a 42.2% annual rate.\n\n\nOnly 32% of data available to enterprises is put to work. The remaining 68% is unleveraged.\n\n\nThe top five barriers to putting data to work are: 1) making collected data usable, 2) managing the storage of collected data, 3) ensuring that needed data is collected, 4) ensuring the security of collected data, and 5) making the different silos of collected data available.\n\n\nManaging data in the multicloud and hybrid cloud are top data management challenges expected by businesses over the next two years.\n\n\nTwo thirds of survey respondents report insufficient data security, making data security an essential element of any discussion of efficient data management.\n\n\n\nThe report identifies the missing link of data management: data operations, or DataOps. IDC defines DataOps as “the discipline connecting data creators with data consumers.” While the majority of respondents say that DataOps is “very” or “extremely” important, only 10% of organizations report having implemented DataOps fully. The survey demonstrated that, along with other data management solutions, DataOps leads to measurably better business outc...