Unlocking the Value of Unstructured Data at Scale
Enterprises across industries are generating unstructured data at unprecedented rates. Electronic manufacturing design teams, media production houses, energy exploration, and life sciences labs are all managing high-value IP scattered across petabytes of storage. The challenge today isn’t just storing this data—it’s unlocking its value to accelerate innovation and AI readiness.
Traditional solutions that once worked at a million-file scale collapse when faced with billions of objects and assets. Long indexing cycles, fragmented storage views, workflow outages, and manual intervention significantly impact productivity. And when it comes to AI initiatives, these limitations compound without global oversight, it’s nearly impossible to prepare high-quality datasets for training and analytics.
Why Traditional Approaches Break at Scale
At enterprise scale, unstructured data creates three unavoidable challenges:
- Fragmented visibility – Data is spread across vendors, access protocols, and locations.
- Slow manual management – Policies and cleanup can’t keep up with growth.
- AI readiness bottlenecks – Identifying the right datasets for AI training and user access for AI takes too long.
NetApp customers increasingly need solutions that provide a unified view, actionable insights, and policy-driven automation—all without disrupting workloads.
The NetApp + Diskover Advantage for Intelligent Data Management
NetApp delivers the secure, multiprotocol foundation with ONTAP®: snapshots, clones, SnapVault backups, SnapMirror replication, SnapLock compliance, security, and data governance enabling customers to prevent unauthorized access and meet regulations such as SEC 17a-4(f), HIPAA, FINRA, CFTC, and GDPR. Diskover extends this with global visibility, streamlined data curation, and agentic workflows enabling business-level processes that discover, analyze, and act on data at scale.
Together, the joint solution enables organizations to:
- See everything – Index billions of files, scan massive data environments fast, so everything becomes usable and searchable in minutes instead of hours.
- Understand usage and value – Enriched metadata to reveal cost, redundancy, and activity.
- Act autonomously – Use Diskover’s agentic solutions to archive, tier, or delete based on policies.
- Security alignment with ONTAP® access controls, ensuring that visibility and actions respect existing permissions and governance policies.
- Fuel AI – Deliver curated, trusted datasets directly into analytics and AI pipelines.
This partnership moves enterprises from passively storing data to actively unlocking its value.
Case in Point: DreamWorks Data Estate
DreamWorks Animation manages petabytes of high-resolution film, VFX, and production assets across global teams. Each new film can generate billions of files that must be retained, accessed, and repurposed. For creative leaders, the challenge isn’t just performance—it’s visibility into the right content.
Before NetApp + Diskover:
- Explosive growth in digital assets overwhelmed storage management tools.
- Data was spread across thousands of volumes and shares but surfaced only in storage-centric views.
- Reporting was slow and disconnected from creative workflows.
With NetApp + Diskover:
- ONTAP® ensures secure, multiprotocol access and resilient data protection via a unified data storage that seamlessly bridges on premises and cloud.
- Diskover leverages unique NetApp integration to index billions of files and enable true business and operational level visibility, ultimately making the creators and users of the data more productive
- Policy-driven workflows identifies redundant assets and frees storage.
- Creative teams gain self-service insights into usage and growth.
Result:
Faster access to production assets and improved efficiency for data-intensive animation workflows
In Their Words
“NetApp ONTAP systems are the storage foundation of high-demanding environments where reliability and performance are mandatory. The true power unfolds when combined with Diskover's Data ability to provide a unified, queryable view across NetApp storage, enabling efficient data hygiene, change tracking, and deep governance insights.” — Skottie Miller, Technology Fellow, DreamWorks Animation
Why It Matters
The NetApp + Diskover partnership transforms how enterprises approach unstructured data. Instead of siloed views and manual management, organizations gain a unified platform that prepares data for AI, reduces costs, and unlocks new value from one of their most underutilized assets: their unstructured data estate.
- Unified visibility across their entire data estate
- Automated actions that scale with growth
- AI readiness with curated, high-quality datasets
The future isn’t about manual data wrangling—it’s about intelligent data infrastructure and self-directed workflows that ensure data is always ready for innovation. To learn more about Diskover, please visit the GitHub page at https://github.com/diskoverdata or https://diskoverdata.com/ and explore how NetApp and Diskover can help you gain complete visibility, control, and AI readiness for your unstructured data. If you have questions, contact our NetApp AI experts and solution specialists or the Diskover team at sales@diskoverdata.com