Truth in IT’s managing editor David Littman hosts IT Analyst Mike Matchett of Small World Big Data and our VP of Business Development Jonathan Calmes in a conversation about the challenges of managing unstructured data – capacity growth, protection, accessibility, especially in environments with both cloud and on-premises storage.

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Aparavi VP of Business Development Jon Calmes and Storage Switzerland Analyst George Crump. discuss the new problems caused by growth in unstructured data and why it needs new solutions.

George has written extensively on unstructured data protection, and we highly recommend taking a listen. He says unstructured data is frequently the most important information asset an organization can have, so traditional/legacy backup approaches aren’t good enough anymore.

According to e-ChannelNews, 85 percent of organizations in the U.S. and Canada employ a multi-cloud strategy. Aparavi's Jonathan Calmes spoke to Paolo Del Nibletto about the issues facing IT service providers in a multi-cloud world. Take a ten-minute coffee break (or kombucha break, if you’re in California), and listen here.

The Big Picture: It's no secret unstructured data is growing at an explosive rate. Add to this the complexity of multiple workflows, sites and cloud infrastructures—not to mention security—and you've got a recipe for trouble. You can't apply yesterday's legacy technologies to solve today's problems. They're inefficient at best and non-compliant or unsafe for your company's data at worst. In this short podcast, learn how Aparavi takes advantage of today's technologies and webscale infrastructure so you can manage a limitless quantity of unstructured data—regardless of how heterogeneous your infrastructure is.

The capacity requirements of unstructured data continue to grow at an alarming rate and the rate of growth is only going to get worse. Storing is problem enough but protecting unstructured data is creating a new challenge that most data centers aren’t prepared for. IT needs to act now to modernize its unstructured data protection strategy.

In this ChalkTalk conversation with George Crump, lead analyst from Storage Switzerland, and Aparavi’s VP of Business Development, Jonathan Calmes, explore how legacy solutions face several issues when dealing with unstructured data.

 Unstructured data has changed dramatically over the past decade. It is not only bigger in terms of capacity, it’s also bigger in terms of quantity, there are just more files to deal with than ever. On top of the increase in size and quantity, unstructured data is more critical to the organization than it was in the past. The problem is that unstructured data protection methods haven’t changed much in the last decade.

In this ChalkTalk conversation, George Crump, lead analyst of Storage Switzerland and Rod Christensen, Co-Founder and CTO at Aparavi, talk through the problems with the current unstructured data protection methods and how Aparavi solves these challenges with its new architecture.