EXPERT OPINION
HPE: Enabling smart data
management to extract
business value
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
(HPE) is in the business of
delivering breakthrough
technologies helping
customers transform
industries, markets and
lives. Intelligent Data
Centres talks to Marc
Waters, Managing Director
UK, Ireland, Middle
East and Africa, HPE,
about the future of data
management, operating at
the Edge and the pace of
technical innovation.
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What are the expectations of
data management in the next
12 months?
Data is vital for every single organisation,
so companies are now looking at their
data management platforms and
strategies and considering how to move
data. I think the expectations of data
management are surrounding how you
move data from the Edge to the cloud.
We see what we call data gravity which
means that the size of the data centre
is so huge that it becomes hard to move
data. This is particularly when you
start applying intelligence to video, for
example. What you don’t want is for your
data centre to get so huge that gravity
holds data back from being moved to
a different location to analyse it before
moving it back.
Firstly, it becomes slower and then
the cost of maths of doing it becomes
prohibitive so we see the need to analyse
data at the point of leave and at the point
of action where there are large sets and
then you manage and move back only
the data that you need into your cloud-
enabled environment, rather than moving
everything back.
So, your data management platforms
enabling that are really important. So,
what we consider now is how intelligence
has become embedded in the very fabric
of a storage environment to enable smart
data management.
We have a piece of software called HPE
Infosight which looks at where data’s
being pulled from, how it’s being used,
what the best way of managing that data
is in a much more automated fashion.
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