IDC: Most enterprises lack basic data management policies

IDC says most enterprises are lacking basic data management policies, despite the buzz surrounding business intelligent software, cloud storage capabilities and virtualization.

"Very few companies have systems in place to make use of their data," said IDC's Enterprise Storage Systems research vice president Benjamin Woo in a V3.co.uk article. "They have to answer the difficult question of what data is relevant."

Woo said "the key is to take the data and make money from it. Preserved data can be used in business intelligence and analytics applications to get a return on it. IT departments are like bankers--they have to hold the digital assets as the custodian for the corporation."

To accomplish this, Woo recommends cloud storage and a virtualization strategy. "Even though businesses can encrypt data, there remains a basic trust issue, although this is changing as people leverage the email cloud," he said.

Virtualized data centers also enable each data piece to be made available for different processes, Woo said. By 2010, investment in virtualization should grow, he added.

For more:
- see this V3.co.uk article

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