IT Productivity Data and Metadata Growth, 2025-2029: Ready for Operational Data Explosion?

This Market Perspective explores the exponential growth of IT productivity data and metadata, emphasizing its critical role in driving digital resilience, operational efficiency, and informed decision-making. Productivity data, encompassing metrics, logs, traces, and enriched metadata, is projected to become the largest data type category by 2028. "Productivity data encompasses a wide range of enterprise-generated content that supports day-to-day business and IT operations. It is the key to ensure digital resilience, business productivity, digital experience, and business innovation. By 2029, productivity data will dominate the digital landscape, growing at a staggering rate. This provides a significant market opportunity for technology providers to address the complexities of IT productivity data management at AI-scale and cost-efficiently." - Senior Research Director Archana Venkatraman, Cloud Data Management and Cloud Governance, IDC