Data Hoarding? Stop the Habit or Be Buried Alive by Your Big Data

The escalating costs and risks linked to heaps of data are just not worth it. Efficiently managing your data is key

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Resist your inclination to keep everything! Instead, take steps to get the right information at the right time. To make important business decisions faster. To know what data is relevant to a critical litigation matter. To know what data's no longer needed and just taking up space and raising costs. To be able to respond confidently to any regulatory or customer inquiry. To provide a better product or service than the competition. With IBM StoredIQ, you can quickly and cost-effectively find, analyze, and act on data to meet hundreds of business and regulatory requirements. Unlocking insights from unstructured data is the key to solving Big Data problems. And it's the essential ingredient to enable your organization to become data-driven. Learn more about how StoredIQ can help assess your data and jump start your information governance initiatives.

IBM Content

IBM® Information Lifecycle Governance
IBM® Information Lifecycle Governance helps you lower costs, mitigate risks, ensure compliance, and drive better business value from your data. Governance is key to managing the speed and complexity of data growth helping you to reduce storage costs and protect your data. It enables you to understand your data, analyze that data, and act on that data in efficient and defensible ways, according to business rules and criteria that you define. IBM Information Lifecycle Governance offers a scalable solution platform that allows you to implement consistent governance strategies throughout your enterprise.

White Paper: StoredIQ Success Stories eBook: Push the Start Button on Information Governance
Organizations today are blessed and cursed by a single word: information. With the amount of data growing at exponential rates and being generated by more sources than ever before, companies are struggling to find answers to their mounting information governance questions. Learn how other clients have wrangled their big data and gained information governance success with this StoredIQ Success Stories eBook.

Gartner

Organizations Will Need to Tackle Three Challenges to Curb Unstructured Data Glut and Neglect

Alan Dayley, Debra Logan

17 June 2015

Increased data growth propelled by the Nexus of Forces has created an unstructured data nightmare. To effectively manage data growth and security, information managers will need to deploy the right tools, and educate employees organizationwide on how to overcome instinctual data hoarding.

Impacts
  • Information managers are unsure of what tools are available to assess scope and risk of the enterprise data footprint, stifling most early stage information management programs.
  • Lack of full understanding of regulatory requirements and hope for analytics prompts organizations to retain all information, creating challenges for information managers. [...]