非効率的なファイルサービスの利用を抑制する

ファイルサービスの使用方法を管理するためのポリシーとプロセスがなければ、既に使われていないデータ(ROT)が蓄積されていきます。

コンプライアンス、ガバナンスおよび監督委員会(CGOC) が実施した調査によれば、組織は、非構造化データのわずか3分の1しかビジネス価値をキープできておらず、「法に沿っている状態」、または「法に沿っていない状態」か、もしくは「状態が混在」しています。これらの結論は、お客様にデータフットプリント解析を提供した経験からNorthernも同意します。

データマネジメントの分野では、データの急速な成長、ますます複雑な規制環境、ハイプロファイルのデータ損失のケース、潜在的なデータ価値に対するリターンを最大限に高めることが重要なモメンタムとなっています。

組織は、ファイルサービスをより効率的に使用したいとの意識から、その機会に関心が高まってきています。

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CDO

価値のあるデータは、データフットプリント全体で失われることはありません。組織は、データドリブンの機会を特定して、把握するための準備を整えるべきです。

IT Senior Management

 IT組織は、より確実にファイルサービスの継続的な開発の収益を最大化できることを保証できます。 Read More

データガバナンス

データの品質を理解し、改善するための取り組みがシンプルになります。標準を実施するためのイニシアチブは、処理されるデータの量に左右されません。

ILM

低レベルのコンテンツ分析のコストと複雑さが軽減され、非構造化データに電子記録管理システムを適用する組織の能力が向上します。

Finance

インフラストラクチャの投資と変革/移行および運用コストを最小限に抑えることができ、既存システムの寿命を延長できます。

ストレージ管理

データ・マネジメントのイニシアチブにビジネスユーザを関与させることで、効率的なファイルサービスの長期的な使用に向けた文化へのシフトが促進されます。

ビジネスユーザ

ビジネスユーザの敏捷性が向上しました。効率的ファイル検索ができ、同じことを重複して行う労力をなくし、結果、機会を逃すことはありません。

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Valuable data hidden by ROT?

In order to effectively realize the latent value of the information that exists within your organization it is clear that you, as the Chief Data Officer, require a strong understanding of the types of information that are being accumulated. Establishing this understanding demands the use of techniques such as data processing, data analytics and data mining, all of which are dependent on an ability to query the organization’s unstructured data footprint.

Inefficient use of the file service; the accumulation of redundant, obsolete and trivial (ROT) data, significantly diminishes the ability to process, analyze and mine unstructured organizational data.

Northern’s Solution

A number of options are available to assist you in the identification and mitigation of ROT. Northern also offers the possibility to implement workflows that effectively adapt business culture and proactively prevent further ROT accumulation.

Focusing on the initial work of reaching an acceptable running state, where a history of data hoarding must be mitigated, Northern recommends the use of it’s Centralized File Service Management and Distributed Data Management solution areas.

The benefits

The identification and defensible deletion of volumes of ROT data offers benefits in all processes that involve the scanning and analysis of the unstructured data footprint. Specifically related to efforts to realize and integrate information value, benefits include:
  • Low-level analysis of large volumes of files can be extremely time-consuming. By initially performing a purely meta-data-based review of the data footprint, and using this review to focus in-depth analysis on a much smaller data footprint, organizations are able to significantly reduce time-lines for information value integration projects.
  • The software and services commonly used to perform in-depth analysis of unstructured data is almost exclusively tied to the volume of data to be scanned. Reducing the initial data footprint has immediate and considerable effects.
  • Data value realization is greatly simplified when file systems are properly maintained – with structures that are transparent and easily navigated, free from outdated and irrelevant files. This greatly improves team and organizational agility as well as reducing effort duplication.

Need to protect infrastructure investments?

Periodic infrastructure renewal, coupled with the necessary migration and transformation projects, form a key part of the provision and continuous development of the file service. Having invested in infrastructure, and performed the work necessary to put that infrastructure into operation, it is vital that steps are taken to guide its use.

Northern’s Solution

Northern is able to deliver a range of capabilities to align actual storage use with intended use. As a senior member of the IT organization, it is important for you to have access to analyses of how the storage infrastructure is being used, in order to determine which of these control/guide options should be employed and how they should be best configured.

Through Northern’s Centralized File Service Management solution area you are able to guide the implementation and tuning of policies and workflows that target the specific challenges that exist or emerge within your organization – ensure that returns on infrastructure investments are maximized.

The benefits

The ability to understand how the file service is being used enables senior members of the IT department to make informed and specific decisions that ensure returns on infrastructure investments are maximised.
  • Inefficient file service use is prevalent. Continuous investment in infrastructure without securing an understanding of how those investments are being used is not a long-term strategy.
  • Identification and remediation of inefficient storage use extends the life-time of infrastructure and offers opportunities for investment avoidance.
  • The ability to concretely show how previous investments are being utilized provides vital input into new budget discussions.
  • Exposing areas of inefficiency, and being able to quantify the effect that this sub-optimal use has, can enable the IT department to secure a wider mandate to implement policies that govern how the file service is used.
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