Staying On Top Of The Cloud: Information Governance

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Syed Raza.

Information governance is a broad, relative as well as a subjective term! If you simply look it up at Wikipedia, you will find the following definition: “Information governance, or IG, is the set of multi-disciplinary structures, policies, procedures, processes and controls implemented to manage information at an enterprise level, supporting an organization’s immediate and future regulatory, legal, risk, environmental and operational requirements”. As part of your everyday work environment, generally less attention is paid to the data adhering to stipulated policies. The real importance of stored data shines when you want to use data as part of your analytics. The importance is even greater during litigation process as the same data can be used as potential evidence!

Emerging Phenomenon

Information governance is an emerging phenomenon and when associated with cloud computing, the complexity increases. Unquestionably, cloud computing is growing leaps due to innumerable benefits especially the cost reduction factor, which is always considered a welcomed gesture in today’s economy…

For instance, legal industry is experiencing a transformation phase due to pressures exerted by cloud computing technologies. Attorneys, typically are not tech savvy individuals, and tend to shy away from technological advancements, showing reservations to their use and implementation. You may still find loads of paper documents in their offices…

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