Originating Author: Dave Vellante
The traditional scope of storage influencers, recommenders and approvers is changing. As the saying goes, "there's a new sheriff in town," and its name is records management. Not the traditional microfiche-based records management that's been in the organizational basement for years, but an emergent capability within corporations that defines retention and classification policy, articulates legal and business requirements and coordinates the activities of cross-functional teams responding to directives from the board room. This new function is catalyzing the development of infrastructures that provide speedy access to unstructured data and encapsulate a series of data blobs into an information asset.
Here's the good news for storage vendors. In order for this vision to become reality, tons of metadata will need to be created to support this effort. Probably more metadata than data, which means more storage. The bad news is that based on marketing messages and selling behaviors, it's becoming clear that very few established storage vendors understand this trend and even fewer are in a position to develop associated storage services that actively exploit an emerging ecosystem of policy engines, search, data classification, document management systems, databases, applications and associated services.
Action Item: Storage vendors need to set forth a vision and define a role in the new records management imperative. Suppliers must add value from marketing through technology integration by developing solutions that automate the reduction of risk and exploit metadata that can be applied to make unstructured information a more valuable asset.
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