How businesses oversee and capitalize on their data has been in the process of transformation in recent years. At the forefront of this transformation is NetApp’s Intelligent Data Infrastructure (IDI), which boasts endless opportunity and a competitive advantage for organizations across various industries. How does it do it? For one, it’s been purposefully architected to provide something that is too often lacking in the data equation—a truly intelligent underpinning for all the systems that support your data. Let’s peruse specific use cases to uncover how IDI truly transforms performance.  

Healthcare: 

In healthcare, where mountains of critical patient data must be both meticulously managed and fluidly shared, NetApp’s IDI offers a set of capabilities that satisfy a seemingly Sisyphean task: ensuring compliance with copious regulatory standards, all while making the data accessible to the many healthcare professionals who need it. 

Financial Services: 

Data security and speed are vital for financial organizations. End-to-end encryption is not just an engineering achievement; it is an absolute necessity for institutions that store, compute, and analyze vast amounts of sensitive financial data. NetApp’s IDI has built-in encryption features so that businesses know their clients’ information is secure. 

Real-time data is also an increasingly significant dimension of the analytics era. Financial institutions are in a race not only with each other, but with the clock as well. The quest for virtually instantaneous insights into the enormous amounts of data they handle has spurred aggressive investments in high-speed, high-capacity infrastructure. For that reason, NetApp’s IDI optimizes transaction processing speeds which enables real-time analytics for better decision-making. 

Manufacturing: 

In the manufacturing sector, utilizing an intelligent data layer supports the integration of IoT devices, along with the data they generate. And an intelligent layer devised from that assemblage can be put to work to yield valuable insights. For example, forecasts about the imminent failure of an IoT-equipped piece of machinery can allow a manufacturer to plan around that failure and its contributing downtime. IDI helps mitigate the pain from productivity-killing events every factory manager dreads. 

How Data Management Improves with NetApp’s IDI 

This advanced infrastructure solution enhances performance of applications with large volumes of data, which permits more efficient data retrieval, backup, and recovery operations. Let’s look at some of the top benefits of utilizing an intelligent data management solution. 

Scalability: 

NetApp’s IDI employs state-of-the-art technologies for the caching and tiering of data, which means it knows to store information at various levels. This multimedia approach ensures that most fast-access data is safely stored in flash drives (with only a tiny fraction of the information “hot enough” to be kept on a solid-state drive). Meanwhile, “cold” data (likely accessed infrequently) is kept on cheaper, slower hard drives. 

Cost Efficiency: 

NetApp’s Intelligent Data Infrastructure can help lower the total cost of ownership of data. By efficiently managing where and how data is stored, IDI can help businesses minimize the side effects of data gravity. The concept of “data gravity” assumes that large datasets act like a gravitational force, pulling applications and services towards them to minimize data transfer latency and costs. By processing data closer to its source, IDI can minimize the need to transfer large datasets across networks, thus helping organizations save money. 

Business Continuity: 

Ensuring that business can continue during unexpected events hinges on two factors: backup processes and disaster recovery capabilities. The NetApp Intelligent Data Infrastructure offers both so that businesses can maintain operations and protect data integrity during an attack or outage. 

Gain a Competitive Edge 

NetApp’s Intelligent Data Infrastructure is a powerful tool that can transform data management and performance across industries, driving efficiency, security, and innovation. By adopting this advanced system, businesses can unlock new opportunities and achieve greater success in their respective fields.