Data and Information Management
Introduction
The volume of information that is being held by organisations is growing at unprecedented rates, being fuelled by the availability of low-cost storage, the use of content-rich personal productivity tools and the enormous increase in the online user population.
The large volume of information has resulted in significant challenges for ensuring that the information delivers value to the organisation. In particular:
- The effort required to manage the information is escalating faster than the growth in the value that organisations obtain from the information;
- Unstructured storage of unstructured information results in most information being lost to all but the knowledgeable few, creating information silos;
- Corporate information assets are getting lost within personal information storage, especially within email; and
- There aren’t enough hours in the day to backup many information stores using traditional techniques and few people have the time or resources to test whether the backups can be restored.
These challenges and others require organisations to rethink their approaches to storing, managing and accessing information.
How Will We Help You?
We will help you pull together the many information management demands to develop information management strategies that contain the cost of information management while ensuring that you extract the maximum value from information assets.
There are many examples of potential technology strategies available, including:
- Database synchronisation or log shipping techniques for online backup of critical systems;
- eMail management and the use of back-end electronic document management systems to manage the growing volume of corporate information stored in personal email accounts;
- SAN replication techniques to provide off-site backup based on point-in-time snapshots or continuous replication; and
- Centralised storage management of remote systems to minimise information management workload and provide centralised failover.
The definition of the appropriate technology strategies requires a structured approach that clearly identifies the organisation’s priorities before selecting technology options. We can help you through this process, ensuring that your information management challenges can be addressed while increasing the value of information to the organisation.
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