Data Cataloging Pilot with Fusion HCI
Unlock the hidden value in your enterprise data by creating a unified, intelligent data catalog.
Exabyte-Scale Indexing
Catalog billions of files and objects across heterogeneous storage environments from a single platform.
Unified Data Discovery
Create a rich, searchable metadata layer that empowers teams to find and activate data instantly.
AI-Ready Data Pipeline
Accelerate AI initiatives by quickly identifying and preparing datasets for model training.
The Unstructured Data Dilemma
In the modern enterprise, unstructured data accounts for over 80% of all information and is growing at an explosive rate. This data is often fragmented across disparate storage silos, creating a formidable challenge. The inability to effectively manage, classify, and understand this information introduces significant business obstacles, including unnecessary costs, compliance and security risks, and a massively underutilized asset. Without a unified, intelligent view, this vast data landscape remains a costly black box, and a primary bottleneck for critical analytics and AI initiatives that are essential for a competitive advantage.
The Li9 Data Cataloging Pilot
The Li9 Data Cataloging Pilot is a turnkey service designed to solve this challenge. We deploy and operationalize a complete, modern data cataloging platform, powered by the IBM Fusion HCI appliance. This container-native metadata management solution is engineered to provide deep data insight across exabyte-scale, heterogeneous storage environments. Our expert-led engagement delivers a complete hardware and software stack that connects to your disparate data sources to rapidly ingest, consolidate, and index metadata for billions of files and objects. This creates a rich, searchable metadata layer that empowers your administrators, data stewards, and data scientists to efficiently manage, classify, and govern massive data stores from a single point of control.
What You Receive
Upon completion of the Data Cataloging Pilot, you will receive:
Fully Deployed IBM Fusion HCI Appliance
A production-ready, enterprise-grade private cloud platform, professionally installed and configured in your data center.
Operational Data Cataloging Service
A validated and healthy installation of the Data Cataloging service, running on the Fusion HCI's Red Hat OpenShift cluster.
Connected Data Sources
The catalog will be connected to your key internal and external data sources, with initial metadata scans completed.
Baseline Policies and Tags
A foundational set of custom policies and metadata tags, developed with your team, to begin automating data classification.
Documentation
Detailed architectural diagrams, configuration guides, and operational runbooks for your new environment.
Empowered Staff
Your team will receive hands-on knowledge transfer sessions, ensuring they are prepared to manage, use, and extend the data catalog.
The Business Value Proposition
This pilot delivers tangible business outcomes by turning your data from a liability into a strategic asset.
Identify and eliminate Redundant, Obsolete, and Trivial (ROT) data that consumes expensive storage capacity
Automatically move cold data to lower-cost storage tiers, optimizing storage expenditures
Reduce manual effort required by storage administrators, freeing them for strategic initiatives
Allow data scientists to quickly pinpoint datasets, dramatically reducing data preparation time
Create seamless data pipelines for AI projects including IBM watsonx model training
Uncover hidden data value and make previously unknown datasets available for analysis
Automatically identify and tag sensitive data (PII, PHI) wherever it resides
Ensure compliance with governance mandates like GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA
Reduce security and compliance risks associated with dark data
A Cloud-Native, Service-Based Architecture
The foundation is a pre-engineered appliance that provides the underlying Red Hat OpenShift cluster, high-performance storage, and redundant networking. This turnkey private cloud hosts the Data Cataloging service and ensures enterprise-grade reliability.
A suite of containerized microservices running on OpenShift provides the tools for connecting to data sources, managing data policies, and visualizing metadata through an intuitive user interface.
AFM nodes within the Fusion HCI appliance function as intelligent data gateways that bridge to your broader enterprise data landscape, including popular NFS filers and S3-compliant object stores. This allows the platform to index and catalog data in-place, without requiring disruptive, upfront data migrations.
When a data source is scanned, its metadata is ingested and processed in real-time. A powerful policy engine provides automated tagging and classification before the metadata is indexed and stored in a high-performance data warehouse, making it instantly searchable by your teams.
Ready to Unlock Your Data's Value?
Schedule a consultation to learn how the Data Cataloging Pilot can transform your enterprise data from a liability into a strategic asset.