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Dm STRATEGY: DATA MANAGEMENT<br />
Data management crucial to AI/HPC strategies<br />
Marco Pozzoni, EMEA<br />
Storage Sales Director at<br />
Lenovo, examines how<br />
data management is<br />
enabling organisations to<br />
reap the benefits of AI<br />
Every organisation today lives and<br />
breathes data, and the pressure to<br />
unlock value from this resource is<br />
growing with each passing year. By 2025,<br />
the world will produce 181 zettabytes of<br />
data each year, with online consumption<br />
having increased a staggering 30 percent<br />
in the past year.<br />
For business leaders, the challenge they<br />
face is more complex than simply<br />
keeping control of the data constantly<br />
being harvested from everything from IoT<br />
devices to medical scans: it's the ability to<br />
sift through this tide of information for<br />
useful insights at speed. Successful<br />
business leaders will be those who can<br />
act quickly to eliminate data silos,<br />
deploying technologies such as AI and<br />
machine learning at the edge to turn this<br />
data into business value in real time.<br />
Data management is increasingly<br />
important in allowing business leaders to<br />
monetise data at speed, bringing<br />
together data from the cloud, onpremises<br />
machines and at the edge, and<br />
enabling business leaders to run AI<br />
workloads. It's also powering innovative<br />
research around the world, helping<br />
unravel some of the thorniest issues<br />
facing the human race. Data<br />
management, high-performance<br />
computing and artificial intelligence are<br />
coming together to enable a new<br />
breed of data-driven start-up which<br />
is helping to break down<br />
boundaries in emerging fields<br />
such as personalised medicine.<br />
Choosing the right data<br />
management and storage<br />
solutions has become<br />
increasingly important for<br />
businesses looking to<br />
reap the benefits of<br />
technologies such as<br />
HPC and AI, with<br />
the right solutions<br />
offering the<br />
simplicity, speed<br />
and security which<br />
can enable business<br />
leaders to forge fearlessly into the future.<br />
UNRAVELLING COMPLEXITY<br />
The data management landscape which<br />
most companies face has become<br />
incredibly complex, with data coming<br />
from everything from cameras in<br />
warehouses to customer relationship<br />
management (CRM) systems, and existing<br />
across cloud and on-premises systems.<br />
Business leaders also need to consider<br />
the security of customer data. Despite<br />
crackdowns by law enforcement in<br />
Europe and the U.S., ransomware levels<br />
have hit all-time highs in 2023, with 81%<br />
of organisations saying they have been<br />
affected at least once, according to<br />
SpyCloud. The ability to secure data, and<br />
defend against ransomware attacks, is<br />
increasingly important.<br />
Simplicity is key to securely extracting<br />
value from data. Customers require data<br />
management solutions which are<br />
interoperable, so that vital insights are not<br />
marooned in siloed systems or left<br />
vulnerable. It's important to find solutions<br />
that combine the simplicity and flexibility<br />
of cloud with the security and high<br />
performance of on-premises solutions.<br />
Storage is becoming an increasingly<br />
important consideration for business<br />
leaders, having grown from being an<br />
afterthought in the world of IT to being<br />
an essential part of company<br />
infrastructure. As the data generated by<br />
businesses continues to grow, IT leaders<br />
need to ensure they choose the right<br />
storage technologies.<br />
Standard hard disks are increasingly too<br />
slow to deliver the performance required,<br />
particularly when it comes to deploying<br />
AI workloads at the edge. Flash solutions<br />
can offer customers a rapid way to<br />
deploy AI. Lenovo's solution includes<br />
storage based on software-defined<br />
storage principles. This concept enables<br />
customers with data-hungry AI<br />
workloads to scale up storage capacity<br />
without sacrificing performance. Such<br />
solutions will continue to grow in<br />
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