Posts Tagged ‘insight’

Symantec Feeling the IO Pressure

Monday, April 19th, 2010

Symantec’s recent announcement of its Data Insight product is a signal that the company sees an important opportunity to move up the value chain by delivering a richer set of business benefits to its customers.  It’s also another indication that the industry as a whole is starting to better understand the importance of Information Optimization (IO).

According to Symantec, Data Insight “enables organizations to improve data governance through insights into the ownership and usage of unstructured data.”  So, in part, their new product will be useful for their traditional risk mitigation business.  If you have better insight into your data assets, you can make smarter decision about what to protect—and respond more intelligently to breaches of your information security policies.

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Economist Reports on the New Phenomenon: Big Data

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

The Economist issued a special report last week entitled “Data, Data Everywhere.” In this report, Kenneth Cukier, a financial and business correspondent in Japan,   was interviewed to share his thoughts around how the superabundant growth of information is having a macro-economic effect not only on businesses but even society as a whole.  Some have labeled this the age of “Big Data.”

Kenneth explains the Big Data movement through a business example.  He reports that “Wal-Mart handles more than 1m customer transactions every hour, feeding databases estimated at more than 2.5 petabytes.”  The CIO of Wal-Mart, Rollin Ford, wakes up everyday asking himself “how can I flow data better, manage data better, analyze data better?”  Wal-Mart is not alone in asking how they can prepare for the age of Big Data.

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Welcome to the Information Optimized Blog!

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Welcome to the “Information Optimized” inaugural blog post. We’ve created this blog to share knowledge and collaborate with you, our customers, our partners and all others interested in bringing people, process and technology together to maximize the business value of information.

So, why the new title? Information Optimized?

An independent party recently completed an in-depth survey of our customer base. What we found was astonishing. We’ve always known that we’ve helped our customers with their information access which has led to significant value for them. However, what we didn’t realize was just how much value. It was fascinating and humbling.

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