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Zantaz Data Resources

Turning all of your escalating Unstructured Data into Actionable Smart Data with Data Optimization

Runaway Unstructured Data
Too Many Petabytes
Escalating Data Storage Costs
... Zantaz has the answer.

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Why Data Optimization is Essential
Over the years, Zantaz Data Resources has continued to update and upgrade our core PremCloud Archive solutions [i.e. EAS, HPCA, and Z Cloud Archive] to keep our customers at the forefront of archive technologies.  However, a few years ago, our team identified a growing need to develop tools to address the escalating volume of Unstructured Data overwhelming our customers. A significant portion of this data is ROT—redundant, obsolete, and trivial information. Not only is ROT costly to store, but it also poses substantial risks for compliance and liability.

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Turning Data into a Valuable Asset at Speed and Scale
Managing and utilizing Unstructured Data, such as text documents, images, and videos, is particularly challenging [and beyond the capabilities of current data archive solutions].  Complicating matters even more, escalating Data Bloat is often metastasizing in scattered systems and departments, leading to data fragmentation.  This fragmentation can make rapidly identifying, accessing, searching, storing, exposing risk, analyzing, and effectively utilizing Data Assets difficult while dramatically diminishing the anticipated ROI on your organization’s expensive investment in data generation and AI LLMs. 

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But now we have the solution … Zantaz has answered this challenge by delivering our Data Optimization solution that can rapidly harness massive amounts of Unstructured Data at exabyte scale, turning it into Actionable Smart Data [rather than just relocating it to a data lake or other unproductive storage repositories].  

 

Although solutions claim to address Data Bloat, none can perform at the speed or scale of our Data Optimization, which can now scan 8 million files per hour [that’s one billion files per week]. 

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Zantaz Solution Profile: Data Optimization

Data Optimization addresses the challenges of managing Unstructured Data, which can lead to inefficiency and compliance risks.  This Tool Kit is specifically designed to tackle the complexities of harnessing Unstructured Data.  Data Optimization aims to transform Unstructured Data into Actionable Smart Data.  Key benefits of the Data Optimization Tool Kit include significant cost savings by identifying and eliminating ROT data, risk mitigation through sensitive information management, improved decision-making, enhanced data quality, re-tiering data to more cost-effective storage solutions, ensuring compliance, and maximizing ROI on data and AI investments.  The suite is available in both SaaS and on-premise deployments, with the SaaS version, Data Optimization SaaS Express, minimizing financial risks by aligning costs with consumption

Data Reader
Data Reader securely and seamlessly reads Unstructured Data sitting idle across Windows and Linux file systems.  Its ability to read data at an exabyte scale ensures that targeted Unstructured Data can be accessed and processed by Ai Data Detect without moving it.  Although solutions claim to address Data Bloat, none can perform at the speed or scale of our Data Reader, which can now scan 8 million files per hour [that’s one billion files per week]. 


Ai Data Detect
Ai Data Detect indexes the Unstructured Data by identifying, enriching, and assigning ownership.  This enables currently unactionable data, including Dark Data, to become Actionable Smart Data.  By recognizing the context and meaning of the data, Ai Data Detect makes it searchable and analyzable [ready for action].  Ai Data Detect can also identify sensitive information and categorize data based on content utilizing AI when appropriate.


Smart Data Router

  • Elasticsearch Indexing Smart Database
    The Smart Data Router’s Unified Data Optic provides a unified view of what is now Actionable Smart Data using an Elasticsearch Indexing Database to enable efficient data exploration, retrieval, analysis, and Data Collections.
     

  • Smart Data Collections
    Data Collections in the Unified Data Optic empower organizations to make informed decisions without moving, altering, or compromising the data itself.
     

  • Smart Data Routing Instructions
    The Smart Data Router provides Optimized Retention Policy Routing Instructions based on the organization’s Policy, Compliance, Utilization, and Security demands.  By aligning actions with the organization’s demands, the Smart Data Router empowers organizations to make informed decisions, streamline operations, and mitigate risk. 

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Data Optimization Benefit
By taking action on the Smart Data Routing Instructions, Zantaz's Data Optimization offers a powerful solution for managing the growing volume of Unstructured Data.  The result is a comprehensive, AI-driven approach to data management that enables organizations to unlock the full potential of their Unstructured Data while eliminating ROT, reducing costs, mitigating risks, and now having the ability to take action against data that was previously dormant and expensive to maintain.

Avalanche of Unstructured Data

Unstructured Data is often data that organizations can’t identify.  It is part of the massive, complex, sprawling world of Big Data.  Research reveals that 60% to 85% of Unstructured Data in storage setups is Dark Data. 

 

In order to optimize Unstructured Data, Data Optimization provides rapid visibility and understanding of your escalating and challenging data stores, turning all of your unactionable Unstructured Data into Actionable Smart Data and dramatically reducing your Data Storage Costs.

 

By shining a light on Dark Data and allowing users to search, discover, and govern that data, Data Optimization addresses the operational burdens of your data compliance obligations and, with human-augmented AI, transforms Unstructured Data into a competitive advantage

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Zantaz
ROI Data Storage Calculator

As recognized by the ongoing engagement at GE with Data Detect, enterprises are overwhelmed with data.  Much of this has exceeded retention, is not a business record, has no compliance or legal preservation requirement, and should be deleted.  But since your organization can’t manage what they can’t identify, clarify, or profile, data continues to grow unabated, leading to escalating costs and increased data risk.  As a result of this over-preservation, enterprises are spending millions to store and analyze this data.  This hurts your organization’s bottom line and diminishes the value and efficacy of analytics programs aimed at deriving business insight from this data.

Zantaz ROI Data Storage Calculator

The Zantaz Data Storage ROI Calculator offers a tangible demonstration of Data Optimization’s unprecedented cost-saving potential.  Such significant cost savings, along with enhanced search capabilities and data security, underline Zantaz Data Resources' effectiveness in optimizing data storage and ensuring data confidentiality.  This is before monetizing the value of your entire Unstructured Data estate [which Data Optimization has converted to Actionable Optimized Data].

 

The ROI Data Storage Calculator provides industry baselines and allows for assumptions to be tailored to each organization, first to project estimated cost reduction opportunities and then to retrospectively report on actual savings as storage optimization programs utilizing the power of Data Optimization are implemented and operated.

 

Utilizing Ai Data Detect, the GE Core Tech Team have combined to solve GE’s data problem.  The calculator operates based on the following assumptions like those in the GE engagement:

 

Managing over 26 petabytes [PBs] of storage, GE found itself grappling with the complexities of an ever-expanding storage estate.  With a looming divestiture deadline driving the project timeline, GE CoreTech established the scope of the initial program to analyze approximately 10 PB of critical data Tier 2 and Tier 3 storage for simple ownership, age, and last access characteristics.

Zantaz ROI Data Storage Calculator Demonstrated by the GE Engagement

Zantaz’s alpha deployment of Ai Data Detect demonstrates the profound impact of this solution in managing over-preserved data.  This collaboration has significantly reduced GE’s data storage costs and enhanced the effectiveness of its analytics programs.  By addressing GE's big data problem, Ai Data Detect has showcased its capability to solve complex data management issues, leading to substantial cost savings and improved data analysis.

 

By leveraging Ai Data Detect, GE is able to intelligently re-tier its data storage, moving over 4 PB of data off of expensive Tier 2 storage and moving nearly 6 PB of previously unidentified Unactionable [Dark] Data to significantly cheaper cloud-based storage.  Ai Data Detect saved GE an estimated $30M - an incredible 60% reduction in storage costs over 3 years.

Getting Cured: Zantaz Data Optimization - Step by Step

1.  Initial Analysis and Planning

Start by acknowledging the issue of Unstructured Data overload.  Engage in collaborative workshops with our Subject Matter Experts to define the scope, scale, assumptions, and success criteria of your project.  To ensure a smooth and efficient deployment, we'll provide the necessary architecture and security documentation required by your InfoSec team.

2.  Fast Deployment and Full Optimization

With your understanding and approval, we will then deploy the Data Optimization components on your preferred environment - on-premise, hosted, or cloud Kubernetes clusters.  We'll also facilitate the integration of Data Optimization with your Directory servers and chosen Data Repositories.  After deployment, we'll fine-tune the Data Optimization components to maximize performance and align with your infrastructure.

3.  Data Analysis and Action

Data Optimization's Ai Data Detect tool is capable of scanning up to 8 million files per hour, providing quick and comprehensive analysis of your data.  It generates clear, graphical feedback on the location, ownership, and usage patterns of your data.  Moreover, it uses AI for deep analysis of key data to identify content, recognize risks, and provide crucial insights.  With this data, you can take decisive actions such as deleting ROT, applying retention policies, and moving data to more cost-effective storage tiers.

4.  Project Review and Success Celebration

Once the implementation and data analysis stages are complete, it's time to assess the project results using the ROI Data Storage Calculator  Verify whether the forecasted cost savings and success criteria have been achieved.  Upon validation of success, you can celebrate your victory in achieving efficient and effective data management with a real ROI on your AI investment.

Will White

President of Zantaz Data Resources

“Ai Data Detect allowed us to rapidly and accurately identify, classify, and profile GE’s data estate, which provided GE with the ability to re-tier several PBs of storage [with a projected savings of $30M], identify sensitive data exposure and risk, and improve data security with control over data ownership and access.”

Turn Unstructured Data into Actionable Smart Data

Schedule a demo to see the Zantaz Data Optimization Tool Kit.

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ZANTAZ DATA RESOURCES

THE CURE FOR UNSTRUCTURED DATA

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