Prepare to guide on data governance, security,curation and business strategy

TOMORROW’SIT PROFESSIONAL:

If you’re working in IT, you’ve probably become a bit of a psychic.

You know that you’ll soon be asked to wear many hats – if you haven’t been asked already.

lookIng InTo The IT crysTal ball

As custodian of that information, your line-of-business peers want your help answering questions such as:

your role Is changIng as InformaTIon becomes The lIfeblood of your comPany (and every comPany).

what was the last piece of data the financial analyst looked at before he quit?

are customers’ social security and credit card numbers stored

in places they shouldn’t be?

where did that quarterly review presentation go?

how is a particular topic trending across my data

over time?

how many of the managers read the annual report before attending today’s meeting?

First, though, you need to get ready to play a few different roles.

you’re PoIsed To helP Them answer Those quesTIons

1. The daTa deTecTIve

Everyone in the company is creating information assets. They’re collecting, processing and storing information. Then they’re failing to use it.

This is how data goes dark, and it’s a problem.

Ignorance is not bliss.

Dark data leads to missed opportunities and risk.

you’ll need to be a data detective to

turn the light back on over those darkened

information assets.

Because what you don’t know can hurt your business, your responsibility for data governance and security is growing.

2. The daTa securITy guard

You’ll have to learn and observe security and compliance laws related to stored information.

3. The daTa curaTor

A museum curator gives visitors the information they need to better understand and appreciate works of art.

Your role in relation to data will be similar.

As data curator, you’ll:

• Capture and store context at creation;

• Tag data with intelligence and create maps to find information; and

• Deliver context that shows the implications of data.

4. The busIness leader

Congratulations!

You’re getting a promotion.

Sort of.

As your role evolves, you’ll be responsible for much more than keeping the IT lights on.

You’ll be brought into more strategic business discussions than previous generations of IT leaders.

get ready to explain how business

insights surfaced in stored data can move the company

forward.

how To manage your many IT haTs

You have growing amounts of data under storage.

And growing responsibilities.

To meet those responsibilities, you’ll need data-aware storage that unlocks the value of your data with context about:

• Content• People

• Time• Activity

you’ll need To become a daTa deTecTIve, securITy guard,

curaTor and busIness leader.

LEARN MORE ABOUT IMPROVING SENSITIVE DATA MANAGEMENT FOR YOUR TEAM.

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