The Data Genomics Project is an initiative designed to change the way we think about managing data. Veritas founded the initiative to bring a community of like-minded data scientists, industry experts, and thought leaders together with the purpose of better understanding the true nature of the unstructured data that we are creating, storing, and managing on a daily basis. Our first contribution to the project is this inaugural benchmark report on real storage environments’ composition—the Data Genomics Index.
In working with 86% of the Fortune 500 and backing up, archiving, or analyzing exabytes of data for these customers, Veritas is in a unique position to glean the defining characteristics of an organization’s environment. Today, the characteristic we focus on is metadata, and in leveraging this metadata aggregated from customers using our file analysis products, Veritas is able to surface accurate details on what real environments consist of.