IT Expert Advises Organisations on Data Management

 

Speaking at the 'NetApp Big Data Technology Summit', Mafiana said proper management of data would give a company insight to manage the business.

Mafiana, who is West African District Manager of NetApp, an IT firm, said that universally data had continued to expand rapidly as companies' data continued to increase.

According to him, the explosive increase in big data was putting enormous pressure on existing infrastructure, especially its storage platform.

``Although human-generated datasets, including Face book pictures and Tweets, are getting the most attention in the media, the biggest source of data growth is machine-generated datasets.

``Digital technologies are moving to denser media, photos have all gone digital, video and medical imaging systems are using higher resolutions, and advanced analytics require significantly more storage,'' Mafiana said.

He said the summit, which was an annual event since 2006, was organised to sensitise the masses on developments in the technology sphere.

Mr Ryan Sayre, Strategic Advisor of NetApp, said the world had entered a new era of scale where the amount of data was rapidly breaking existing storage architectures.

Sayre said the company provided innovative storage and data management solutions that delivered outstanding cost efficiency and accelerated business breakthroughs.

''The NetApp Enterprise Content Repository solution based on infinite volume offers boundless, secure, scalable data storage for big data,'' he said, adding that with NetApp solution, enterprises could efficiently and securely drive successful business outcomes.

Mr Oloruntoye Aderinola, Solution Manager of Systems Application and Products in West Africa, said information (data) is the lifeblood of today's businesses.

Aderinola said there were about five billion mobile phone users globally and these users would continue to produce data.

He said that one of that challenges that organisations faced in the management of big data was the cost of storing such data.

According to him, there has been a constant tussle between Chief Financial Officers and Chief Information Officers of organisations on the right investment for data management.

He said that adoption of the right managerial strategy of big data would give companies flexible views on how to run their businesses.