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Your data stockpile represents critical collective intelligence for driving business value if harnessed correctly and made widely available. Sun Vice President of Identity Management Sara Gates shares with Boardroom Minutes readers Sun's unique approach to tying the information lifecycle to the identity lifecycle with the goal of enabling business leaders to usher their companies into the next wave of Internet computing.
Q: What are the business drivers bringing data management and identity management together?
A: Companies today are struggling to manage rapidly growing amounts of data — our catch-phrase is "data sprawl." Sprawling data means increased storage costs. It's increasingly challenging and costly to store data and meet regulatory requirements around data protection and retention. Storage capacity growth rates are ranging from 40 percent to 300 percent per year, and storage is expensive. Storage hardware utilization rates are also very low — about 40 percent to 60 percent. At the same time, there is a need to maximize the business value of data.
On the security front, companies are struggling with how to get security under control, to enhance compliance. It doesn't really matter to a CIO whether it's data security, building security, network security, or application security. It just needs to be secure. As we discussed in our last interview on identity management, Sun is putting security and control in place, not to lock things down, but so that we can hit the next wave of computing, the Web 2.0 read/write Internet.
So it's a natural extension to tie identity-driven security to identity-driven data management. Costs go down, security is improved, and compliance is easier to get a handle on.
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