32% of leaders do not know the locations of all of their data centers, rising to 49% when including third-party providers.

44% of IT leaders reported that their data visibility has somewhat reduced, while 16% reported a significant reduction due to the growth of their IT environment.

88% of security professionals rated a metadata lake approach as “critical” or “very valuable” to solving their data visibility issues.

97% of CISOs rate metadata lake technology as either “critical” (36%) or “very valuable” (61%) for solving their data visibility and AI governance issues.