Information Governance in an Era of Information Hypergrowth

What should you do with your data? Where you should put it? How can you track it? These are no small questions. With data growing quickly every day, the old strategies simply do not work. From HIPAA to e-discovery, there are huge regulatory demands requiring you to know what is happening with your data. It's no longer fiscally feasible to just purchase more and more of the same traditional storage for all the new data, and you face huge security risks—not to mention lost business opportunities—if you don't properly track it. "Store everything" is no longer an option; you need more efficient methods of storage and prioritization. Find out how you can meet the data challenges of today and tomorrow.

Using Information Governance to Mitigate Risk

As greater challenges emerge in today’s data-centric business environment, organizations are placing more emphasis than ever upon risk mitigation. Not only are IT executives looking for ways to reduce their organizations’ risk profiles, but business leaders—including boards of directors—are making risk reduction an essential action item. Continue Reading

The Challenge of Information Fragmentation—Where Is That Data?

As data grows at a breakneck pace, it may be easy for organizations to overlook a fundamental requirement of information governance: locating the data. And finding a given piece of information is no picnic, especially when data no longer consistently and solely resides in well-known, on-premises data repositories managed by DBAs with intimate knowledge of the data. Continue Reading

Why “Store Everything” Isn’t a Strategy for Information Governance

A tidal wave of information growth is adding complexity, cost and risk for most organizations. Multiple analyst firms indicate that data is growing by more than 40% annually—and will likely continue doing so for the foreseeable future. In fact, one estimate indicates that 90% of the world’s data has been generated in just the past two years. Now, many analysts are wondering about the implications of this, including Ase Dragland of Sintef. “Internet-based companies are awash with data that can be grouped and utilized,” he noted. “Is this a good thing?” Continue Reading