Moving big data creates challenges for companies across the board. In this third decade of the 21st century, the way we use data has fundamentally changed how we do business, how we communicate, and how we use information for decision-making purposes. This rate of change is accelerating faster than ever before due to the use of emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), connected devices, machine learning, and the rise in data processing and storage.
Increasingly, companies are capturing and processing data closer to the edge where it’s generated. These edge environments can be static, such as media, entertainment, and healthcare industries, or they can be moving sources such as autonomous vehicles and airborne systems.
Managing data at the edge reduces delays that often occur during transportation across distances and prevents losses caused by corrupted files, unexpected shutdowns, or equipment failures. However, transporting massive amounts of data creates three common significant challenges.
Challenge #1: Cost
Moving big data can incur huge costs for companies for several reasons. For example, a big data transfer between two endpoints in a healthcare environment would need a dedicated high-speed network to transfer data in a reasonable time.
Network Costs
In many instances, data is transferred over a network. Transferring hundreds of terabytes of data per day requires a dedicated high-speed network between two endpoints, which incurs significant costs.
Data Transport Costs
For some deployments in which high-speed networks cannot be setup between two endpoints, some companies use customized solutions to transfer this data. In this case, errors are more frequent and complex, and the cost is high to manage it.
These issues impact data usage in various ways, such as delays in the implementation of insights in real-time, reduced revenue resulting from bottlenecks, and security breaches that can take place during migration.
Addressing Cost Issues
BRYCK® is a solution developed specifically to address the cost challenges by providing a fast, easy-to-use method of moving big data between two endpoints. The powerful, high-density solution packs up to a petabyte of data into an external drive that fits in the palm of a hand.
Small and lightweight, BRYCK® takes a single physical trip to move data from the edge to a data center or the cloud. It bypasses the expensive cost and time and space restraints, eliminates the need for support personnel, and is simple to deploy, wipe, and reuse over and over.
Finally, organizations can carry out big data transfers without needing to maintain a hefty budget each month.
Challenge #2: Speed
As the size and volume of data sets continue to grow and affect business decisions, moving data fast and accurately becomes mission-critical for organizations. The challenge of speed can impact revenue, cost, customer service, and business processes across multiple industries.
Most of the tools currently available for moving big data are incapable of transferring large volumes at high speeds across global distances due to the limitations of internet transfer technology. This protocol, developed originally in the early 1970s, required little bandwidth to transfer small packets of data in existence at the time. As the size and number of packets grew, the networks became overburdened, and packets began to arrive faster than they could be processed. This situation still occurs today, resulting in packet loss and a slower network processing speed, causing congestion.
Slow big data transfers present challenges in fields where data capture is closer to the edge. For example, every flight in airline transportation generates massive amounts of data. Currently, transferring the data from a flight deck to a data center can be time-consuming, inconvenient, and cause high-impact delays in delivering the insights needed for improving future flights.
A Better Way
BRYCK® has a solution to the problem of slow data transfer time by eliminating physical obstacles impacting data capture at the edge. The portable mass storage device has a super-fast I/O architecture, high-speed encryption capabilities, and uses multithreaded parallel processing to move datasets simultaneously.
Where previously organizations transferring large quantities of data needed days or weeks to move it, BRYCK® transports data easily and provides access to that data in less than a day. For companies looking to differentiate their product offering through accelerated access to data at the edge, the faster transfer time reduces costs, enhances customer service, and increases profitability.
Challenge #3: Security
As digital transformation accelerates in businesses, cybersecurity is even more important than before. Confidentiality and information integrity are paramount, but when data is transferred over networks, it is vulnerable to security breaches and corruption.
In Gartner’s 2021 Board of Directors Survey, respondents rated cybersecurity the second-highest source of risk for enterprises after regulatory compliance.
Global data security challenges include:
- Network interruptions
- Increasing global regulations
- Difficulty finding security professionals
- Migration of workspaces from traditional networks
- Explosion in endpoint location and diversity
- Constantly shifting attack environments
- Risks of ransomware, cyber-terrorism, and email compromise
Addressing the Threats
BRYCK® addresses many of these threats by enabling secure big data transfer. High-speed, AES 256-bit data encryption ensures security against social engineering hazards. The use of physical transportation methods eliminates network-based dangers such as delays or interruptions resulting from bandwidth constraints, hacking, time delays, and data losses. The product is tamper-resistant and easily transported in a tough, secure, handheld case to wherever the data is captured or processed.
Benefits of BRYCK® Security
BRYCK®’s focus on security benefits users by reducing the risk of damaged data and security breaches. Organizations can save the money they typically spend on compliance fines and damage repair. By protecting privacy, companies can enhance trust with their customers and maintain their organization’s integrity, values, and ethics. These benefits offer a unique competitive advantage for any organization using data-driven business processes.
Data security is a priority for many business leaders as they lead their companies through massive digital transformation efforts, but despite the investments in security controls, cyber-attacks keep coming. Organizations are under pressure to withstand and reverse data security risks, but current approaches fall short of solving the problems.
BRYCK® offers a solution that addresses three common challenges of big data transfer: cost, speed, and security. This product delivers added benefits that make moving big data simpler and more reliable, such as a user-friendly dashboard that allows easy performance monitoring and usage. Additionally, the device can be wiped clean and reused repeatedly, reducing the expense associated with managing and transporting the ever-burgeoning quantities of data.
Eliminate the need for costly long-distance network connections to transport data from remote locations. Avoid data transfer delays due to slow network performance and completely bypass network-based security threats during big data transfers with BRYCK® .
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