Cloud Computing: A Gathering Storm for Data Governance?

Grazed from SmartDataCollective. Author: Gayle Nixon.

In the latest of Trillium Software’s Hashtag chats (see #DQChat for details of the discussion) I moderated a session focusing on the rapid growth of Cloud Computing and its impact on Data Governance. We explored questions such as: How is Cloud impacting Data Governance? What are the major issues to be addressed? How can these be tackled? How does Data Governance as a discipline need to evolve to meet these challenges? Is Cloud a gathering storm for Data Governance and its practitioners or a sunlit window of opportunity?

As usual these questions generated many opinions and a few disagreements. There was however strong consensus that Cloud is radically changing the traditional Data Governance paradigm. Increasingly the storage and management of data in the Cloud, held as it is outside the traditional physical boundaries of organisations, means that Data Governance has to shift from being largely an inward facing activity to one where active involvement with external third party suppliers of IaaS, SaaS, etc. becomes the norm…

One outcome is, as one participant contended, that it ‘makes the need for Data Governance greater than ever’. But it also requires Data Governance practitioners to develop new commercial skills in contract management, negotiation, SLAs and so on…

Read more from the source @ http://smartdatacollective.com/gayle-nixon/193801/cloud-computing-gathering-storm-data-governance

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