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11 November 2026

The Real Test of Data Governance Should Come Before a Crisis 

When a crisis as large as the recent Binance theft occurs, the subsequent investigation will sooner or later land on governance. As the immediate response unfolds, the deeper question becomes whether the organization had enough oversight of its most consequential systems to prevent a compromise from becoming an enterprise-wide event.  But for any organization facing any consequential data incident, the real […]
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6 October 2026

The Hidden Cost of Unstructured Data

On the face of it, data storage has plenty in common with business real estate. In each case, organizations pay for capacity and then decide what assets go where. The aim is to make the best use of the available capacity, and both need active management as requirements change.  But this is where the respective strategies often […]
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25 September 2026

Less Is More? Not for Enterprise AI 

The idea that ‘less is more’ has been passed down through generations as a useful piece of wisdom. You can apply it to almost everything in life and, for the most part, it makes perfect sense. Reducing what is unnecessary can bring greater clarity and focus.  Where this idea falls down completely, however, is in the context of enterprise AI. […]
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13 August 2026

HR Data Security: The Access Problem Hiding in Plain Sight

The Problem With HR Data Security That’s Hiding in Plain Sight Imagine you work in HR and are preparing a spreadsheet containing confidential employee information for a specific group of managers. When it’s time to share the file, you accidentally select the wrong email group and send it to far more people than intended. Scenarios […]
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14 July 2026

Is More Storage the Answer to Unstructured Data Growth?

Recently, we sat down with Blocks & Files editor Chris Mellor to discuss a challenge that is becoming increasingly difficult for enterprises to ignore: unstructured data growth is making the traditional strategy of continually adding storage capacity economically and operationally unsustainable. Machine-generated data, AI workloads, and other data-intensive initiatives continue to increase the volume of […]
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20 May 2026

Is Your University’s Data Storage Working Against You?

Here’s a number that should make every university IT leader stop and think: one well-known institution of around 40,000 students is generating more than 15 terabytes of research data every single day. This is no longer just a storage challenge — it’s a data management challenge, and most universities are already struggling with the consequences. […]
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19 March 2026

Data Security Compliance: Why Data Custodians Must Evolve

Modern supply chains are deeply interconnected, and the data exchanged across them can be just as important as the products and services they deliver. As a result, enterprises are placing greater scrutiny on how vendors handle information and what security vulnerabilities they may introduce. Security validation is increasingly part of the procurement process rather than […]
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20 February 2026

Why ‘Retain by Default’ Increases Data Retention Risks

Data breaches are now a familiar business risk. Beyond the immediate operational, financial, and reputational damage, exposed information can also create significant legal consequences when customers, employees, or other affected individuals seek compensation. But the impact of a breach depends partly on what data was there to be exposed in the first place. If an […]
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10 February 2026

Ensuring AI Data Quality in the Era of GenAI

AI is changing how organizations use decades of accumulated enterprise data. At the same time, multi-cloud architectures, heterogeneous storage, and a growing mix of file and object platforms have made that data more distributed than ever. During SNIA’s webinar, Intelligent Data Management: Shaping the Future for AI Workloads, Datadobi CTO Carl D’Halluin explored a challenge […]
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