Datadobi, the global leader in unstructured data management, is announcing its latest iteration of StorageMAP, the enterprise-grade, heterogeneous unstructured data management solution. Adhering to the company’s planned development roadmap and customer feedback, StorageMAP 7.3 delivers new orchestration and automation capabilities for data management tasks, as well as new policy-driven workflows, more precise data actioning, and enhanced migration and compliance.
The first of its new features, policy-driven workflows, tackles the challenges of unstructured data growth.
According to Steve Leeper, VP of product marketing, Datadobi, “With this growth comes multiple challenges for IT organizations, such as dealing with storage system expansions, balancing of data across storage systems, and how to keep control of cloud storage costs…In order to effectively implement proactive data management practices, I&O [Infrastructure and Operations] leaders need assistance in the form of automation.”
Automation is further crucial due to the widening gap between IT staffing and data growth.
“The automation of data management workflow policies allows the IT staff to focus on value-added projects, while data management becomes a monitoring task instead of a series of non-stop projects,” added Leeper.
StorageMAP 7.3’s policy-driven workflows enable administrators to define tasks executed by its workflow engine in response to specific triggers, such as a time schedule. Enterprises can then effectively automate a variety of tasks—such as periodic automated archival, creating data pipelines to feed GenAI applications, identifying and relocating non-business-related data to a quarantine area, and more—to better accommodate the current state of IT and I&O.
“StorageMAP 7.3 marks a major step forward in enabling true automation for unstructured data management,” said Carl D’Halluin, CTO, Datadobi. “Organizations can now define and execute policy-based actions at scale, removing the bottlenecks inherent to existing manual processes, making their file and object storage environments far more responsive to operational needs.”
StorageMAP 7.3 also introduces granular deletion and targeted data control, ensuring enterprises with large data repositories can effectively reduce cost and risk during refinement. Administrators can create criteria that inform deletion jobs, which StorageMAP will execute, enabling surgical-level deletes while retaining relevant data.
“StorageMAP's file-level deletes provide a fine-grained mechanism for removing data that does not provide value to the organization,” explained Leeper. “The deletes are executed at scale and within a single solution spanning all unstructured storage systems, whether on-premises or in the cloud.”
Finally, StorageMAP 7.3 improves its core object migration functionality with newfound support for migration of locked objects between S3-compatible storage systems. This allows for the migration of compliant data stored in a Write Once Read Many (WORM) format to different vendor platforms, without sacrificing its retention data and legal holds.
Additionally, users can now select the S3 storage class during object migration or replication, allowing them to better control costs by specifying the desired storage class at the time of the job.
“Being able to select the specific storage class desired during migrations or replication allows Datadobi customers to control cost by placing the migrated or replicated data into the storage class corresponding to the desired cost and performance level,” said Leeper. “Using a solution that does not provide this capability will result in high costs because all data will be written, by default, to the storage class with the highest cost and performance characteristics.”
At its core, StorageMAP 7.3 aims to accommodate enterprises with large, complex data estates, offering them greater control without increasing operational overhead. Teams can focus on more value-adding tasks, while allowing them to migrate critical data without disrupting compliance or performance, according to Datadobi.
“Unstructured data continues to proliferate across hybrid environments and organizations need solutions that not only provide visibility but also enable decisive action,” said Simon Robinson, principal analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, now part of Omdia. “Datadobi is addressing several operational pain points by introducing policy-driven automation and greater control over how data is managed, deleted or migrated, especially in compliance-sensitive scenarios.”
To learn more about StorageMAP 7.3, please visit http://www.datadobi.com/.