RESOURCES | USE CASES
Real-world examples of everyday—or very niche—use cases.
Diskover transforms unstructured data from a costly burden into valuable strategic assets that drive efficiency and innovation.
SOLUTIONS FOR YOUR WALLET
USE CASE | Managed data costs.
No matter the specific use case, Diskover delivers fast ROI and long-term value by optimizing overall efficiencies.
One of the most significant Diskover’s use cases focuses on turning data challenges into financial gains by increasing overall efficiencies, decreasing wasted time, reducing storage costs, and helping businesses charge appropriately for storing customer projects, to name only a few.
By redefining data as a managed asset, Diskover delivers immediate transformative financial outcomes and drives long-term value.
LIFE SCIENCE
Reclaiming $542k of data estate within days of using Diskover.
World-renowned cancer research institute
DATA.
CHALLENGES.
The institute faced significant challenges in managing over a century of critical pathology data, essential for groundbreaking research and clinical outcomes. Rapid data growth across departments, with storage footprints expanding by petabytes annually, required a more strategic approach to data management. The complexity of their storage estate made it difficult to identify, manage, and optimize data effectively.
DISKOVER IN ACTION.
Diskover transformed the institute’s data management by quickly indexing 27 million files across 4.7PB of storage. Within hours, over 0.5PB of temporary and transient data was identified for cleanup, enabling swift archiving and freeing up valuable storage. By simplifying data lifecycle management and ensuring compliance, Diskover allowed researchers and clinicians to focus on their life-changing work.
MANUFACTURING/RETAIL
32% storage reduction/$233k savings topped with global data security.
$6B major US retailer
DATA.
CHALLENGES.
The company faced significant challenges with untenable data growth on its SAN,. Limited visibility into sensitive data storage compounded the problem, while inefficient tools made it nearly impossible to address the escalating issues effectively.
DISKOVER IN ACTION.
Diskover transformed the organization’s data management by enabling rapid analysis of data proliferation, providing actionable insights, and streamlining storage cleanup. After a year of attempting to mitigate content storage challenges with other tools, which took weeks to scan storage, Diskover was implemented, and completed the same process in just days.
Its comprehensive analysis facilitated the examination and quarantine of millions of files, followed by defensible deletion. By leveraging metadata modeling and sustainable workflows, the organization achieved significant reductions in storage volume and file counts, optimizing its data estate for long-term efficiency.
ELECTRONIC DESIGN AUTOMATION
Saving millions of dollars annually while streamlining EDA pipelines.
$144B leading EDA firm
DATA.
CHALLENGES.
Managing vast and complex semiconductor design data, maintaining HPC efficiency, and ensuring data security across global operations present significant challenges. These include optimizing searches, preventing workflow disruptions, controlling costs, and addressing inefficiencies.
DISKOVER IN ACTION.
Diskover transformed their data management by establishing a single source of truth, streamlining data cleanup, and ensuring global visibility for proactive risk and cost control.
These efforts not only prevented storage outages but also optimized resources, saving millions of dollars annually.
ENERGY
Data as a key asset for merger/acquisition.
$60B natural energy US corp
DATA.
CHALLENGES.
This corporation faced challenges in managing data inventory, ensuring security, and preparing for a critical event: its merger and acquisition. The need to locate specific project files across disparate systems and provide data visibility without compromising security added to the complexity.
DISKOVER IN ACTION.
Diskover empowered the organization to transform its data management by creating a comprehensive inventory, enabling efficient cleanup and organization. It redefined data from being a cost and liability to a valuable, secure asset while improving global findability and tailored visibility for authorized users. of truth, streamlining data cleanup, and ensuring global visibility for proactive risk and cost control.
MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT
Media studio/network saves $10M in storage space.
$40B global entertainment giant
DATA.
CHALLENGES.
Managing globally dispersed data, and such a huge amount of it, presented significant challenges, including identifying waste and addressing storage inefficiencies, leading to escalating costs and operational complexity.
DISKOVER IN ACTION.
Diskover transformed fragmented data management by providing global visibility and precise query tools, enabling the organization to reclaim considerable storage space and dramatically reduce costs.
AI PIPELINE | LIFE SCIENCE
Research center saves $250K by unclogging AI pipeline.
World-renowned research institute
DATA.
CHALLENGES.
While leveraging AI to accelerate research and clinical outcomes, this institute faced mounting storage costs and efficiency concerns within its AI data pipelines.
DISKOVER IN ACTION.
By taking a holistic approach, Diskover, in collaboration with the institute, mitigated over half a petabyte of wasted capacity, avoiding $250,000 in overspends while ensuring their data flowed seamlessly.
DATA HYGIENE: THE FOUNDATION FOR OPTIMIZED DATA ESTATE
USE CASE | Data reduction.
Cutting waste, controlling footprint, and making space for what matters.
Effective data hygiene starts with an initial cleanup to address the vast amounts of waste generated over time—temporary files, scratch space, and data marked ‘delete’ or ‘archive’ that still occupy significant storage. Companies often sit on mountains of cached, trivial, redundant, or obsolete data, to name only a few, consuming valuable resources and driving up costs.
By implementing ongoing data hygiene practices through sustainable automation, organizations can continually identify and eliminate redundant or unnecessary data, reducing storage footprints and unlocking valuable capacity for critical operations.
INITIAL DATA CLEANUP
Quickly eliminate ROT data across all your unstructured data.
Use case:
Organizations face significant challenges in managing ROT data, often buried in duplicate files, obsolete content, compressed, and temporary/cached data scattered across systems. The inability to quickly locate and address these inefficiencies leads to ballooning storage costs, operational delays, and resource waste.
Diskover in action:
Diskover empowers organizations to eliminate obvious waste by leveraging global, powerful searches that quickly identify unnecessary data. From duplicate files to outdated content and temporary data, Diskover helps streamline storage, improve efficiency, and free up valuable resources.
Once data is identified, various tools can tag, organize, analyze, delete, and enable automated workflows, supporting ongoing data hygiene practices.
ONGOING DATA HYGIENE
Maintain control over your data, space, and costs.
Use case:
Without proper ongoing data hygiene and management practices, organizations face escalating challenges that can hinder operations and drive up costs. Unchecked data growth leads to inefficiencies, wasted resources, and heightened risks, impacting overall productivity and decision-making.
Diskover in action:
Diskover solves the challenges of poor data hygiene by providing a clear view of an organization’s entire data estate, enabling efficient cleanup, organization, and ongoing scheduled management. With powerful indexing and automation, Diskover ensures that data remains accessible, secure, and optimized for long-term use, preventing costly inefficiencies and risks.
TAILORED DATA HYGIENE
Capture and shed industry-specific siloed data waste.
Use case:
There’s ROT data and there is industry-specific ROT data.
Organizations managing complex and specialized datasets often struggle with fragmented workflows, operational inefficiencies, and rapidly accumulating data waste that drives up costs and hinders performance.
Diskover in action:
Diskover collaborates closely with customers to deeply understand their file-based workflows, specialized filesystems/file types, and project lifecycles, creating tailored tools to address the intricacies of their unique environments.
SMART DATA PLACEMENT: RIGHT DATA, RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME
USE CASE | Data tiering.
Optimizing data placement for cost-efficiency and lifecycle management.
Diskover empowers organizations with intelligent data tiering, ensuring data is stored in the most appropriate and cost-effective location depending on the lifecycle of your projects. By analyzing metadata and usage patterns, Diskover identifies high-value data for premium storage and relegates less critical data to lower-cost tiers or archives.
This strategic approach not only optimizes storage costs but also enhances accessibility and efficiency, allowing businesses to focus resources where they matter most.
FROM HIGH-PRIORITY ACCESS TO ASSET PRESERVATION
Data tiering automation.
Use case:
Data tiering has become essential for organizations to balance performance, costs, and productivity. By categorizing and storing data based on its usage, value, and accessibility needs, businesses can ensure critical data remains readily available while reducing expenses associated with less frequently accessed information. This strategic approach not only optimizes storage resources but also streamlines workflows, enabling teams to focus on what matters most.
Diskover in action:
Diskover simplifies data tiering with automated workflows driven by its rich metadata catalog, enabling seamless promotion or demotion of data across storage tiers.
DATA GOVERNANCE, RISK MANAGEMENT, AND COMPLIANCE STRATEGY
USE CASE | Risk management.
Sensitive data management for continuous risk mitigation and effective compliance strategies.
Diskover is not a direct provider of governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions but serves as a powerful tool for partners specializing in these areas. By leveraging Diskover’s capabilities in global visibility, searchability, and rapid data indexing, organizations can efficiently identify sensitive data, mitigate risks, and support compliance strategies.
Diskover’s software integrates seamlessly into solutions for GRC, PII, PCI DSS, and data ROT, enabling firms to locate and manage critical data across diverse storage environments with precision.
SEAMLESS INTEGRATION FOR SENSITIVE DATA PROTECTION
Diskover’s integration for GRC solutions.
Use case:
No one can fully prepare for uncontrollable risks, but identifying data that could expose you to harmful events is essential to effective data protection planning. Private data breaches, whether internal or external, highlight the critical need to know where sensitive data resides—especially when it’s spread across multiple storage repositories.
With remote work on the rise and transitions to cloud and SaaS environments, mitigating risks has become more challenging. The lack of visibility and searchability across data silos can lead to catastrophic consequences. Risk assessment isn’t a one-time event or limited to large organizations; it’s an ongoing necessity for businesses of all sizes to avoid financial and reputational harm.
Diskover in action:
Diskover is not a direct provider of governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions but serves as a powerful tool for partners specializing in these areas. By leveraging Diskover’s global visibility, searchability, and rapid data indexing, organizations can efficiently identify sensitive data, mitigate risks, and support compliance strategies.
Diskover integrates seamlessly into GRC, PII, PCI DSS, and data ROT solutions, empowering firms to locate and manage critical data across diverse storage environments with precision. Contact us today to schedule a demo and take the first step toward safeguarding your data.
We are excited about the integration possibilities among two of our strategic partners, Diskover and Snowflake,” “We ingest unstructured data from Diskover and other data sources to our records management platform and ultimately deliver to Snowflake. The Records 365 platform should directly benefit from efficiencies delivered through our partner integrations.
Anthony Woodward // Chief Operations Officer
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