How to Protect Your Business with a Disaster Recovery Plan
Disaster Recovery Planning: A Quick Guide to Creating a Solid DRP Disaster recovery planning (DRP) is an essential aspect of any business, regardless of its size or industry. In order to ensure that...
Basic data backups can be compromised. Think like a cybercriminal.
Are you thinking like a cybercriminal when it comes to protecting your data? In the event of a worst-case scenario, IT professionals have always relied on a strong data backup policy. Unfortunately,...
5 Ways Next-Gen Data Management Boosts Cyber Resiliency
Data attacks are on the rise, with a significant increase in ransomware threats year-over-year. Bad actors are not just encrypting data but also destroying backups and stealing information for...
Using a Data Services Platform for Governance
Avoiding the IT Pitfalls of Selecting the Tools before Governance Strategic business initiatives often trigger one or more projects that involve IT, such as consolidating business applications,...
References and Mobile Data for Data Governance
As you examine categorizing your desktop and mobile data for proper data governance, a great place to start is with Reference Data. This includes information like units of measurement, country...
The Importance of Metadata in Data Governance
The importance of metadata in governance is critical for organizational success. How is it currently failing "out-of-the-box?" Well, file systems typically only collect a few minor data points about...
Data Governance Series: A Deep Dive by Mike Colesante
Data Governance Series - A Deep Dive by industry veteran, and Backup Tech CEO Mike Colesante Ideally, you would start at Part I and follow along in order. That might make the most sense. However,...
Data Quality and Accuracy for Data Governance
The failure to centralize, cleanse, fortify, manage, and govern data makes it less transparent, more challenging to find, harder to control, and nearly impossible to incorporate. That’s why data...
Recognizing the Importance of a Single Source of Truth (SSoT)
Organizations must treat data as a valuable business asset. The importance of Single Source of Truth (SSoT) is to ensure that everyone in your organization bases business decisions on the same data....
Defining Intelligent Data Governance and Planning for Success
What exactly is Intelligent Data Governance? If you browse around, you'll find there are many definitions of Data Governance. Starting with a simple, straightforward base we'll first define it as: ...