A basic data lifecycle
I’m going to run a few posts about overall data management, and central to the notion of data management is the data lifecycle. While this is a relatively simple concept, it’s one that a lot of...
View ArticleThe importance of being archived (and deleted)
This is part 2 in the series, “Data Lifecycle Management“. Penny-wise data lifecycle management refers to a situation where companies take attitude that spending time and/or money on data lifecycle...
View ArticleSisyphus, the Storage King
This is the third post in the four part series, “Data lifecycle management”. The series started with “A basic lifecycle“, and continued with “The importance of being archived (and deleted)“. (An aside,...
View ArticleDark Data
We’ve all heard the term Big Data – it’s something the vendors have been ramming down our throats with the same level of enthusiasm as Cloud. Personally, I think Big Data is a problem that shouldn’t...
View ArticleData Awareness Distribution in the Enterprise
Continuing on my post relating to dark data last week, I want to spend a little more about data awareness classification and distribution within an enterprise environment. Dark data isn’t the end of...
View ArticleThe hard questions
There are three hard questions that every company must be prepared to ask when it comes to data: Why do you care about your data? When do you care about your data? Who cares most about your data?...
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