Chuck's Blog

The Changing Face Of Information -- Information Risk Management

We're on a journey here that spans across multiple posts, looking at the broader impacts of our shift to an information economy and an information society.

In my previous post, I attempted to make the case that information governance -- a centralized, business-oriented view of how information is gathered, used and managed across the enterprise -- would likely be an emergent theme; if not now, then certainly in the near future.

I also observed that risk avoidance associated with information management issues -- although a likely starting place for the discussion -- wasn't the be-all and end-all of how we might think about the topic.

In this post, I'd like to explain a bit about why information risk management will probably be not only the central theme behind information governance, but how it will probably dominate the IT security discussion in coming years.

The Changing Face Of Information -- Information Governance

This post is part of a sequence I've introduced here, looking at some of the inevitable consequences of our rapid shift to an information-centric economy and society.

In this post, I'd like to present my case that the CIO -- and everyone who works in the IT organization -- will likely have a new role in the near future.

They're going to be the CFOs of information.

The Changing Face of Information -- Intro

Sorry for being a bit delinquent in posting here regularly.

I've been travelling more than usual.  Although air travel these days can hardly be described as glamorous (insert long list of major grievances here), there is an upside: you get to meet great people, and you get some time to yourself to think and reflect.

I thought I'd do something different here, and offer up a consistent sequence of posts about the powerful forces of information-related change that's sweeping our society, and the resultant consequences that are likely to occur in the next few years. 

I've touched on many of these concepts in my last few hundred posts, but I thought it'd be worthwhile to present an organized view for consideration and -- hopefuly -- discussion.

Part of my motivation is reading the prognostications of others. 

I either find (or get sent) just about every "looking ahead" piece that gets written.  Although I always find a few things that I can agree with, I often find that I'm saying to myself "gee, they really missed that one, or this one". 

So I'm going to try to do a bit better.

Potential Upcoming EMC Announcements

[updated 4/4: ... folks, this post was an April Fool's prank.  I ended up fooling too many people.  And, as blog posts are typically read far after they're posted, I thought some truth-in-labelling might be appropriate.  Commentary now appears throughout.]

Well, if you look at the calendar, you'll see it's getting to be spring.  And in the info-tech industry, this is when all the new product announcements start.

I thought I'd share with you a few upcoming announcements you just might see in the next few weeks, or not, as the case might be ... ;-)