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Food for thought

In this article I am going to share some insight from work we’ve been doing at infoboss that could potentially save your organisation a lot of money… The picture for this blog is a picture of some fruit, cherries. The picture is perfectly able to convey my message that this is in fact a food…
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Effective cloud migration

Almost all organisations are either on or planning a journey to migrate on-premise document stores to the commercially compelling cloud alternatives. The preferred and most successful approach has been to classify, clean and purge before migrating and this is where infoboss can help… Why not try out our cloud migration solution? With monthly rental and…
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Temporary files, the single use plastic of DATA

Here’s a corporate tale that I’m sure you’ll recognise… It’s not true of course (or is it?), but it is based on real true life events. CEO calls the head of HR, “Can you email me the list of all staff and their package details? Thanks. Bye.”. Head of HR to assistant, “Can you get…
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The ‘dark data’ conundrum

Originally published in Computer Fraud & Security (Science Direct, Elsevier) [July 2020] Unstructured “Dark” data is both an opportunity and a threat to every business. How your organisation manages this unique category of data will potentially define its chances of success or failure over the years to come. This article explores the risk and opportunity…
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Is your cloud data migration strategy the right one for you?

We ran a poll recently on LinkedIn that posed the following question with three options as answers… Migrating data to the cloud? What approach would you recommend? This generated the following results… The majority of our followers on LinkedIn are data professionals so it was not a surprise to find the overwhelming majority recommended the…
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Classifying documents (I didn’t realise you could do that!)

One of the challenges many organisations’ currently face is classifying documents in their shared drives or cloud storage. They usually need to classify them to determine what they should do with them. Delete them because they’re worthless or beyond the retention period, move them to lower cost storage, analyse them for hidden nuggets of information,…
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The business benefits of illuminating “dark data”

Across the data estates of almost every organisation there are ever-expanding stores of unstructured and un-analysed data, sometimes referred to as “dark data”. This data can take many forms: text messages, documents, PDFs, spreadsheets, comment fields in databases, chat scripts, social media messages, photographs, scanned documents, conversations in collaboration tools, log files, IoT devices, survey…
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