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Practical thinking on unstructured data.
Clear thinking on the data questions every organization faces, from the team that builds Diskover.
The storage got bigger. The problems kept their shape. An interview with Mike Bott.
Mike Bott has built VFX storage for thirty years. Storage got bigger and faster, but three problems kept their shape. Here is what changed, and…
Agent-ready is a different standard from AI-ready.
AI-ready data is a set a person chose before the model ran. Agent-ready data is an estate described well enough for an AI agent to…
What sits outside OSDU, and what to do about it.
OSDU Version 1.0 gives energy companies a stable standard for the data they load. The interpretation projects, seismic versions, and reports on the file share…
How to inventory a data estate you did not build.
The share named “current” has not been written to since 2019, and the person who named it left. A method for building an unstructured data…
From dirt to data. Your digital estate is now his dig site. An interview with Bill Burns.
Bill Burns dug shovel tests ahead of bulldozers before he ever imaged a hard drive. Diskover’s Director of Digital Archaeology on reading an estate from…
Everyone sells data intelligence. Ask what it can see.
Three vendors say data intelligence and mean three different things: rows, volumes, or files. Here is how to tell them apart and decide which one…
After tape-out, the runs you deleted are what machine learning wants.
For 30 years the night after tape-out meant deleting the scratch tree. The runs that went first, the large failed ones, are the runs a…
What actually breaks at a billion files.
A compliance team is asked to produce every client statement issued in 2019. The firm holds a billion files, the data is certainly there, and…
The storage you’re paying for but no longer need.
Your storage footprint grows every year, and so does the invoice. A large share of what you pay to keep is data no one will…
In post, the AI worth having never touches the creative.
Post-production has a reasonable suspicion of artificial intelligence, and creative work is not where it belongs. Underneath the timeline, though, sits an estate nobody can…
AI does not stall on infrastructure. It stalls on data. An interview with Tony Chidiac.
Tony Chidiac spent four years selling the infrastructure foundation for artificial intelligence, rising to Head of Worldwide AI Sales at NetApp. He watched hundreds of…
The bottleneck in AI drug discovery isn’t compute. It’s locating the relevant data.
You bought the GPUs. You hired the ML team. And your AI project is still stalled. Not because the science is hard, but because no…
Dark data is a compliance problem waiting to happen.
The real cost of dark data isn’t storage. It’s the passwords, credit-card numbers, and personal records sitting in files no one can see, account for,…
Extending Snowflake Horizon Catalog to the Enterprise Unstructured Data Estate.
Snowflake Horizon Catalog governs every table, app, and model — but 80% of enterprise data still lives in files it never mapped. Diskover indexes the…
From insight to action: what data automation actually means.
“Automation” is the most overused word in enterprise technology, so here is what it actually means for unstructured data: turning policy into action, not just…
Metadata, your most underused asset.
Storage budgets don’t balloon because teams store more valuable data, but because no one can see what’s on tier-1 storage or whether it belongs there….
5 steps to cut storage costs and keep them down.
Storage budgets don’t balloon because teams store more valuable data, but because no one can see what’s on tier-1 storage or whether it belongs there….
Storage costs and lead times are rising. The answer isn’t more capacity. It’s optimization.
Storage costs and hardware lead times are climbing, but buying more capacity isn’t the only answer. Much of your primary-tier data is cold and untouched….
Turning the storage shortage into a strategic advantage.
The global hard-drive shortage is colliding with runaway data growth, and the old ‘buy more disks’ reflex no longer works. Most organizations already have the…
Why good data management is a lifestyle, not a cleanup project.
Diskover CPO Paul Honrud, a 35-year data management veteran, explains why managing unstructured data is an ongoing discipline, not a one-time cleanup. Ignored files pile…