data governance

Although most large IT organization have resisted deploying the system since its release in 2011, it’s safe to say the jury is in and the verdict is unanimous; if you run a Microsoft shop, it is time to move the organization’s wealth of data to Office 365. Given that...

85% of business data is unstructured, an amount of data that doubles every 90 days. This data comprises the vast majority of digital business assets, so ensuring that access is controlled and governed by business “need-to-know” is imperative. A key part of that is recognizing security issues with your...

Whether across File Shares, SharePoint, or Public Folders, most firms lack visibility of their unstructured data environments, regardless of their business size or vertical. Being in the dark with your unstructured data leads to a host of strategic and tactical issues — the inability to prioritize risk based on...

Data collection and correlation can be a fraught undertaking. What metadata should you extract? What tools and technologies do you have in place to collect and report on your data? How do you organize and categorize the data? Where do you start grouping data into collections? To keep things...

Quick, how many unstructured data sources can you name? Enterprise firms deal with countless terabytes of unstructured data, unorganized and easily accessible, ranging from text analytics and paper documents to Excel spreadsheets, hard drives and print servers. The list is long and spans well beyond big, network-attached devices, file...

Data Ownership In the first part of our multi-part SPHEREboard Fridays Webinar Series, our Director of Architecture and Design, Rosario Mastrogiacomo, demoed our own product software SPHEREboard and shows how we have simplified one of the most complicated procedures – discovering data ownership. Rosario outlines what an owner is,...

On February 1, SPHERE Technology Solutions hosted a webinar with SailPoint; delivering key information that not only can help secure organizations from breaches, but can also be an incredible asset in an all-encompassing IT security strategy that provides for the ability to protect and enable  business. Today’s threat landscape...

Earlier this month at the New Jersey Technology Council’s Annual Tech Day, Rosario Mastrogiacomo, our Director of Architecture and Design, discussed how there is a divide between cybersecurity and the basic tenets of data analysis, especially big data, predictive analysis and data mining. Today, data analysis is at the...

We wish we were talking Sinatra, but we’re not. Dodd-Frank has been around for many years and has over 240 rules, and it’s not just about financial stability.  There are numerous rules which cover the areas of data that SPHERE specializes in. It’s all about understanding what is going...