DATA & ANALYTICS
Dark
Data : Ian Wood , Veritas Tech LIVE Virtual 2023
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“ We can predict where data resides in an organisation and ultimately shine a light on dark data ”
IAN WOOD FORMER UK HEAD OF TECHNOLOGY , VERITAS
Dark data : sustainability and data privacy challenges Dark data poses a range of challenges to organisations across the world . In the UK alone , 6.4 million tonnes of CO2 is attributed to dark data - representing around about 1.5 % of the region ’ s total emissions .
“ Simply having all this data stored and run from a day to day life is wasting a very , very valuable energy resource that is not only important to the climate today , but also quite costly as well ,” Woods asserts . “ It has a cost implication , and it has a social implication to making sure that we ’ re more effective and responsible in storing data .”
And with data privacy becoming increasingly important , organisations must be careful to avoid falling foul of regulators .
“ We ’ ve increasingly seen that regulators are starting to gain teeth . Many organisations are experiencing fines if they ’ ve mistreated data and they don ’ t adhere to the GDPR or data privacy regulations around the world . You can imagine that if an organisation has a lot of dark data , what you can ’ t see , you can ’ t manage . So there ’ s a real implication to the risk of data treating it responsibly .”
86 September 2023