Veritas Presentation at the CDO Forum, Europe

Preventing Information Chaos The importance of gaining insight into your unstructured data

Peter Grimmond

Head of Technology, Europe, Middle East and Africa

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Corporate Unstructured Data

Corporate Structured Data

Non-corporate Data


Unstructured Data Problems



Problem 1

Most organizations have no idea what information they have, what it is worth,

or why they keep it. But they will keep it. Forever.


Problem 2

Most organizations have no idea where their sensitive, regulated, or most

valuable information is, nor who has access to it.


Problem 3

When organizations need to actually find information it takes too long, costs

too much, and usually is missing results or has too many results. Or both.

Implications of Ignoring Unstructured Data



Keep applying the same solution…


…and ignore the implications…


…and threats.

Dealing with the Deluge

Develop an approach to gain visibility into your unstructured data



Visibility Understand what

you have

• Broad

• Deep

• Combination

Action Have a plan and

enforce it

• Policy

• Move / Archive

• Change Access

• Assign Retention

Control Automate

• Automate Policy

• Report

• Validate


Preliminary Information Map Findings Select Customer Deployments


97TB 37% stale

130TB 32% stale

830TB 50% stale

Key Insights: • 1 share with 73% stale; another 90% older than 1 year

• Millions of small ‘audio’ files located

• 31 TB of unknown non-business data

The Next 90 Days: Key Next Steps

1. Understand what you have Develop a plan for getting visibility into your unstructured data including where it’s kept and who owns it

2. Know the influencers and start the policy discussion Getting agreement amongst the CIO, business units, Legal can take time; CDOs can use a mandate break down governance silos

3. Prioritize & tackle one problem at a time Determine where the greatest liability or gain can be had (e.g., sensitive information access, PST remediation, stale file cleanup)


Thank you!

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Peter Grimmond

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Veritas Presentation at the CDO Forum, Europe

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