The Taneja Group published an article on how to unbury the meaningful information from your storage infrastructures. Vendors like Tarmin, are leading the way towards the new era of data-aware storage, which understands more about the content and attributes of the data stored, provides real-time analytics, delivers on demand data accessibility, archiving, and other advanced data services as well as leverages open and accessible APIs to enable a rich ecosystem of integrated applications.
Tame the Data Sprawl with Data-Aware Storage
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