Six steps towards a more structured data management culture in enterprises

Everyone has a place at home that holds a collection of miscellaneous items that may come in use from time to time. For most people, they would usually only take the same couple of things out every now and then. They are mostly junk, and in truth, most of these items could otherwise be thrown away.

Step 1: Discover users and resources
The first step in getting control of unstructured data is to catalog all the unstructured data stores throughout the network. For organizations facing ever-growing streams of unstructured data, taking a stock check of registered users and files in the system help determine what is important and what should be removed. Through this process, the IT team can identify phantom user profiles and files and flag them as data to archive. This can help give the IT team an overview of how much data they will need to manage, and determine next steps.

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