Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton isn’t the only one who used a personal email account to conduct government business, with sole discretion over which emails she kept or deleted. US Department of Energy employees routinely use private email accounts for public business and decide on their own which emails to keep or delete, according to the DOE Office of Inspector General. The US government employs more than 13,000 people at the department.
The world’s digital infrastructure is currently characterized by a plethora of data interchange formats. It’s not the least bit surprising that such a multiplicity undergirds things at the moment. The internet is scarcely a generation old, while the “Internet of Things” and “Big Data” more closely resemble regulative ideals than realities. But I nonetheless believe that there are strong, discernible historical tendencies currently at work in this field, tendencies that strongly favour JSON over others.
New Zealand’s Chief Archivist Marilyn Little has released the report of her review into Prime Minister John Key’s record-keeping practices in regard to text messages.
The value of intellectual property was $US329 billion worldwide in 2013, accounting for 1.5% of the $US22.2 trillion of the financial flows tracked by the World Trade Organization. In the United States, the $US128 billion in intellectual property (royalty and licensing income) generated by US companies accounted for 5.6% of the $US2.28 trillion in US exports, making intellectual property revenues second only to food and agriculture exports.
At the recent Chief Data Officer Summit in Melbourne, Veritas Senior Vice President Greg Muscarella presented a session on The Importance of Gaining Insight into Your Unstructured Data. Afterwards, IDM asked Greg to outline some of his recommendations. Greg leads Product Management and Engineering for the Veritas Information Intelligence team where he is responsible for products such as Data Insight, Information Map, Enterprise Vault and Enterprise Vault.cloud, and the eDiscovery Platform powered by Clearwell.
Most organisations know they should make it easy for employees to work together and share ideas. As workplaces become more decentralised, employees are needing to collaborate across teams, regions and time-zones to do their jobs well.
US firm Skyward has introduced what it described as the first information management solution designed for commercial drone operators. The cloud-based solution integrates a drone airspace map with flight planning tools and a digital system of record, supported by a team of regulatory and operational experts.
Depending on the number of columns and your version of Excel, record limits vary. But, generally speaking, in the later versions of Excel, if you’re topping 500K records, you’re starting to push limits.
I am hearing much about Master Data Management (MDM) from all industry sectors. Not just oil and gas but commercial organisations, software providers, miners etc. On my quest to be able to talk intelligently about it over dinner with my nerdy database friends, I decided to create “MDM for Dummies”. What follows is not for dummies, but for you – the intelligent and worldly reader.
Oil and gas production is an extremely volatile business. From exploration and drilling, to transport and delivery, producers are continuously faced with difficult challenges that can mean the difference between profitability and loss if they are not overcome; and as oilfield operations throughout the world have become increasingly complex, the inherent risk that companies have incurred has increased as well.
