The biggest sources of unstructured data in the enterprise
- Posted:
- 00:00 29 Mar 2007
Right now, your most significant sources of unstructured data are email and file services; both are generating a lot of data. Remember, file services doesn't just include spreadsheets and Word documents. We're talking about video files, audio files and image files -- rich data that is very difficult to control. With email, consider how we "Reply to All" and forward messages that duplicate and proliferate a message many times over -- often with attachments. Ultimately, the unstructured data is really piling up and cluttering our file servers and other infrastructure.
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