Some 35 percent of more than 300 global information technology professionals surveyed by Komprise say unstructured data is growing too fast and getting too expensive to store and backup. Some argue edge computing will help if it can prioritize data and process it locally, eliminating the need to store irrelevant data, either locally or at remote locations.
According to the survey, 65 percent of organizations spend more than 30 percent of their IT budgets on data storage and management: One-third (33 percent) are spending 30-40 percent of IT budget on storage and data protection, while 31 percent are spending more than 40 percent of their total IT budget on storage.
Unstructured data includes files that aren’t stored in a structured database format, such as surveillance data, geo-spatial data, audio, weather data; documents such as invoices, records, email, productivity applications or sensor data.
Unstructured data also includes social media; websites; mobile data: text messages, location data; instant messages; podcasts; photos; audio and video files.
Structured data sources include customer relationship management (CRM) platforms, sales and finance data or event registrations that are in database format. So structured data is standardized.
By most estimates, up to 80 percent of all data is unstructured.
Unstructured data--in documents, social media, emails, audio/visual files, open-ended response fields, notes fields, and other forms of content--is not easily analyzed using standard data analytics tools.
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