Data Debris

A term new to me.  We re gathering more and more data.  Yet more than half of all data will never have any value to the enterprise.  But we don't yet know the identity of that half,  and one of the ideas behind big data is to save all of it so we can use it for purposes we discover later.  The article discusses the issue and its connection to issues like governance.  Dealing with it ... " ..  by developing an information lifecycle governance program that takes a transparent, enterprise-wide approach to data retention and enables the routine and defensible disposal of valueless data.

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