Most of the organizations are good in managing structured data, but still there is so much of industry-critical data that exists in an unstructured format causing an exponential increase in data storage cost due to its maintenance of hot tiered Storage and DC footprint cost. Data is critcal for every business’s success and it’s considered to be one of the most valuable resource for any organization. However, every data is not an active data since there are more than 40% of customer data which is deemed to be ROT (redundant, obsolete or trivial), not well-known to any one, it is concealed from view, easy to ignore and hard-to-access as well as analyses.

A strong Dark data assessment solution delivers enterprise with a 360˚ view into corporate content for the more advanced analytics. This will enable service integrators (like HCL) to go beyond the cost management and start to innovate and creating new value to the customers with the insight that is extracted from massive and growing content. Analyzing file share (SMB/CIFS/NFS) to understand enterprises file data which bring business values to manage overall Data life cycle (Visualize, Analyze, move and manage), driven data placement to discard unwanted data, archive to S3, DC consolidation to lower overall TCO, risk mitigation, and data management simplification to modernized customer digital journey.