Another Step Towards Information Governance

By Chuck Hollis, Global Marketing CTO EMC Corporation

VP -- Global Marketing CTO EMC Corporation

Sorry for falling behind the pace here, but there was a recent EMC product announcement that I found worthy of a deeper discussion.

EMC’s SourceOne group just announced their new File Intelligence product.  And, as organizations struggle to get their arms around unfettered information growth, we may just have a new and important tool in the arsenal.

You be the judge …

The Back Story

It’s obvious — information in corporate environments is growing like crazy.  Whether it lives in file systems, email boxes, repositories like SharePoint or Documentum — the forecast is rampant growth followed by more of the same.

And that’s where I think the discussion around information governance is so interesting.

A Familiar Theme

If you’re a long time follower of this blog, you probably remember a time when I was discussing this topic frequently.

My case went something like this:

• more and more of our business models are being built on information — in some ways, it’s the new “money” of our digital age.

• whereas many organizations know how to effectively manage money, far fewer are proficient at managing information in all of its forms.

• over time, more and more organizations will be forced to consider the topic of “information governance”, a cross-functional approach to balancing costs, risks and value of the organizational information portfolio.

• information governance teams — over time — will arguably be at least as important as, say, financial governance or other forms of organizational governance.

If you want to read more, I’ve dug out a few of the older posts here, here and here.

So, Where’s The Real Problem?

Most people when they think of information governance tend to think of transactional data: customer records, structured databases and the like.

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