Here's an interesting sideline on data management in the cloud era. Commenting on data security issues, Wong Loke Yeow of Hewlett-Packard ArcSight notes that companies sometimes lose data that they shouldn't have stored in the first place: "Organizations should relook [at] data retention practices and processes to ensure sensitive third-party records are stored on transient system and conduits".
It's apparently cheaper and easier for companies to keep data rather than purge it. Similarly, it's easier and cheaper to store unstructured data than to tag it. Organizations are in danger of becoming data landfill sites. This is a dangerous strategy, because you're accountable for everything you keep. Companies need to rediscover data discipline. Configuration Oversights
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