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Dm STRATEGY: DATA MANAGEMENT<br />
"FOR BUSINESS LEADERS, THE CHALLENGE THEY FACE IS MORE COMPLEX THAN SIMPLY KEEPING CONTROL OF<br />
THE DATA CONSTANTLY BEING HARVESTED FROM EVERYTHING FROM IOT DEVICES TO MEDICAL SCANS: IT'S THE<br />
ABILITY TO SIFT THROUGH THIS TIDE OF INFORMATION FOR USEFUL INSIGHTS AT SPEED. SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS<br />
LEADERS WILL BE THOSE WHO CAN ACT QUICKLY TO ELIMINATE DATA SILOS, DEPLOYING TECHNOLOGIES SUCH<br />
AS AI AND MACHINE LEARNING AT THE EDGE TO TURN THIS DATA INTO BUSINESS VALUE IN REAL TIME."<br />
importance in the coming years.<br />
A GAME-CHANGER FOR DATA<br />
MANAGEMENT<br />
Bringing AI to the data is increasingly<br />
vital for business leaders, enabling them<br />
to put data to work immediately. This<br />
difference is crucial: think of a video<br />
camera (to take one example),<br />
monitoring a stock room. In previous<br />
decades, the information would have<br />
been accessible to review on the<br />
camera, or would have been sent to a<br />
data centre for processing. By bringing<br />
AI to the edge, or even to the camera<br />
itself, decisions regarding re-stocking<br />
(for example) can be made instantly,<br />
helping business leaders to make the<br />
right decisions to boost the bottom line.<br />
The right storage solution enables<br />
business leaders to bring cutting-edge<br />
AI capabilities to the source of their<br />
data, enabling the sort of rapid-fire<br />
decisions which keep businesses ahead<br />
of the competition. Effective data<br />
management can deliver insights which<br />
enable business leaders to deploy new<br />
services quickly, scale existing services,<br />
and even lead to new business streams<br />
or whole new business models.<br />
To enable this, business leaders need<br />
the right technology, and require IT<br />
teams to work closely with the rest of<br />
the business, ensuring that data is<br />
ingested promptly, AI is deployed<br />
rapidly, and that business users receive<br />
the insights they need.<br />
POWERING BREAKTHROUGHS<br />
Powerful data management solutions<br />
are enabling new ways to harvest<br />
insights which can change businesses,<br />
and even change the world. Biotech<br />
start-up Novo Genomics is harnessing<br />
AI to unravel the mysteries of human<br />
genes via genomics, a field of biology<br />
focused on unravelling the human<br />
genome (the complete set of human<br />
DNA). Genomics provides us with a<br />
more in-depth understanding of the<br />
root causes of illness and infectious<br />
diseases, helping to shift towards a<br />
new era of medicine. Many of the<br />
innovations powering today's cuttingedge<br />
genomics would have been<br />
almost unimaginable 10 years ago, and<br />
rely on industry leading data<br />
management solutions.<br />
Novo Genomics is harnessing the<br />
power of AI and data management to<br />
develop personalised treatments<br />
through genomics and multi-omics, not<br />
just for humans but also for animals<br />
and plants (agrigenomics) as well.<br />
Doing so involves harnessing and<br />
processing vast amounts of data, as the<br />
researchers perform genomics<br />
sequences for entire populations. The<br />
huge volume of data is managed<br />
through two Lenovo Genomics<br />
Optimisation and Scalability Tool<br />
(GOAST) nodes, which can process a<br />
batch of 32 exomes (a specific part of<br />
the genome) in parallel in as little as<br />
three hours.<br />
The solution allows Novo Genomics to<br />
analyse an entire human genome in less<br />
than an hour. To put this achievement<br />
in context, doing so took up to 150<br />
hours just a few years ago. Accelerating<br />
genome sequencing to this level could<br />
unlock a future of precision medicine,<br />
personalised to the individual, where<br />
genomic analysis is paired with data<br />
from edge devices including wearables<br />
to deliver personalised prescriptions and<br />
treatments, tailored to the individual's<br />
specific needs and genetic make-up.<br />
Data management enables powerful<br />
combinations of HPC and artificial<br />
intelligence and machine learning,<br />
which are opening new frontiers of<br />
discovery around the world, and<br />
enabling humanity to deal with the 'big'<br />
questions from incurable diseases to<br />
climate change.<br />
WHY DATA MANAGEMENT<br />
MATTERS<br />
For any business, data management and<br />
storage will grow in importance in the<br />
coming years, as it becomes ever more<br />
crucial to be able to take advantage of<br />
data in real time. Deploying AI at the<br />
edge will become a key differentiator for<br />
forward-thinking businesses, as will the<br />
ability to navigate this increasingly<br />
complex data landscape while keeping<br />
customer data secure. Data<br />
requirements never shrink: they always<br />
grow. Business leaders must be able to<br />
guarantee to their users that this vital<br />
data is available quickly to employees<br />
and applications across the business.<br />
Cutting-edge storage solutions can<br />
help business leaders to cut through<br />
their data, eliminate siloed ways of<br />
working, and empower them to find<br />
business insights from edge to cloud.<br />
Storage and data management are<br />
growing in importance in the IT<br />
landscape, becoming something that<br />
will be central to powering the world's<br />
most innovative businesses. Effective<br />
data management will also spark<br />
breakthroughs in fields such as<br />
precision medicine that could redefine<br />
the future of humanity.<br />
More info: www.lenovo.com<br />
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