In the digital era, every organization is operating in uncharted data territory. IDC Research predicts that by 2025, the world will create 163 zettabytes of data every year. Across the world, structured and unstructured data volumes are exploding beyond imagination, and with new varieties that must be collected, managed and analyzed. And regardless of industry, organizations are acquiring data at a much higher velocity; end users are responding with demands for daily, hourly and even continuous database refreshes so they can run analyses on the latest data and make decisions faster and with greater confidence.