The document discusses the importance of balancing form and function in user experience design, particularly in data management tools for IT professionals. It emphasizes that aesthetically pleasing interfaces should also enhance functionality, enabling users to effectively visualize and manage their data. Key features include identifying dormant data, uncovering sensitive information, and analyzing storage trends to improve overall data governance.

1. Visualizing the
data-driven future of
user experience

2. Form should
follow function.

3. Too often, sleek
interfaces and
features
get added to products
even if they don’t improve
functional efficacy.

4. add to price tags and increase
device footprints without
enhancing the user experience.
Form-over-function
approaches

5. form and function
both matter.
In the data center
and across line-of-
business departments,

6. with the storage
dashboards from
which they manage
and safeguard data.
IT pros spend
a lot of time

7. Those interfaces have
traditionally been too
focused on stagnant metrics –
IOPS, capacity or disk drive
status – and not much else.

8. of today’s IT pros demand
better design support.
The data-driven
functions

9. admins need storage
that is data-aware.
To visualize the risks
and opportunities
within their stored data,

10. must also improve functionality.
Aesthetically
pleasing form

11. When it comes to
surfacing insights
from your data and
leveraging it for governance,
risk and compliance,
visualization is a critical part of:

12. Identifying how much
dormant data you have

13. Uncovering exposed
confidential or sensitive data

14. Seeing who is consuming
the most storage space

15. Anticipating storage
needs by reviewing
storage usage trends

16. Uncovering unusual
access patterns
(that may be a sign of malicious
intent or compromised credentials)

17. And finding subject
matter experts.

18. When useful, intuitive
user experiences
deliver value
at every screen and within
every report and graph…

19. ... storage admins and
professionals throughout
the organization
can discern what they
need quickly.

20. To learn more about how the form-
fitting UI of the DataGravity Discovery
Series unlocks the value of your data,
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