by Colin Cecil | Jan 16, 2025 | Best Practices, Data Governance, Risk Management
The archived data – frozen in time. Immutable. Preserved. Unchanging … until a new data privacy regulation takes effect. Meeting Data Compliance Regulations For many years data retention policies focused on the minimum amount of time that data needed to be...
by Colin Cecil | Oct 19, 2024 | Best Practices, Delivering Value, Risk Management, Technical Debt
The process of archiving data can be expensive, from the movement and testing of data, the creation of reports and the documentation of the process. It is necessary when the data is subject to records retention and needs to preserved for a long period. Another option...
by Colin Cecil | Aug 21, 2024 | Best Practices, Data Governance, Risk Management, Technical Debt
Cars Age Better Than Applications Every Friday night in local towns there are displays of vintage cars, all immaculately maintained, engines clean, leather polished, windows and dashboards gleaming. Some were top of the line originally, some were more mass produced....
by Colin Cecil | Aug 18, 2024 | Best Practices, Data Governance, Risk Management, Technical Debt
What is Considered an Orphaned Application? Every found a server stuck in a closet still running with some application on it? Acquired a company and all of the employees headed straight for the exit? An unlisted application is found on a server that has to be retired?...
by Colin Cecil | Aug 17, 2024 | Best Practices, Delivering Value, Risk Management
Keep it All or Slice and Dice? Easiest post on this site. Back in the 80s data storage was at a premium, particularly in mainframes. I remember thinking that the 160MB hard disk in my new computer was absurd and that I’d never fill it – now a single video...
