by VAST | Aug 1, 2017 | Professional Services, Security, Transformation
Some studies show that companies don’t know what half the data they store is. That means they can’t use it to generate insights that support the business, potentially costing them growth opportunities. Now, with the new General Data Protection Regulation...
by VAST | Jul 27, 2017 | Professional Services, Security
Next year brings a major new compliance regime into effect in the European Union. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be effective starting May 2018. The regulation places strict rules around the collection, usage, and protection of personal data, with...
by VAST | Jul 20, 2017 | Infrastructure, Professional Services, Transformation
As companies collect more and more data to support big data analytics, they run the risk of overloading their operations. This isn’t just an issue of having the capacity to store all that data; it’s also about having the capacity to manage all that data,...
by VAST | Jul 1, 2017 | Governance, Professional Services, Security, Transformation
Companies are drowning in data today. Data lakes pull in all kinds of data to preserve it for later analysis, including unstructured data, like comments in user forums, which would have previously been discarded. In many cases, big data projects start as small...
by VAST | May 25, 2017 | Professional Services, Transformation
Making copies of data has its benefits. Copies offer protection in case data is corrupted or lost, and copies let developers test new code on real data without putting the production database in danger. If copies were deleted when they were no longer needed, the...
by VAST | May 16, 2017 | Professional Services, Security, Transformation
Effective data governance requires understanding your data so you can apply the right usage policies, the right access controls, and the right retention strategies. The onslaught of data accumulation most businesses face these days, including an increasing quantity of...
