Comparing Tape and Cloud Storage for Long-Term Data Preservation

whitePaper | March 12, 2020

In recent months, my company (Baron Consulting) has been proactively involved in setting up Data Collection Systems for a range of Private and Public Organisations we are servicing. Some of the data collection challenges have already been discussed in our recent Raw Data Collection 2020: Principles and Challenges White Paper. While the RDC (Raw Data Collection) paper analysed the current state of the everchanging Data Collection requirements, it did not have the scope to address technicalities of the RDC processes along with the specific Data Collection tools and methods. The purpose of this paper is to fill the void by looking into implementation of the automated data collection processes.

whitePaper | November 18, 2022

It’s time to treat data like a product, not an afterthought. A new paradigm has emerged among forward-thinking data teams: treat your data like a product. This may sound easy in theory, but it’s far from it! Product development processes have become incredibly sophisticated, with resources dedicated to reliability, adoption, feature roadmaps, and more.

whitePaper | June 8, 2023

The importance of data in achieving successful business outcomes cannot be emphasized enough in this digital era. Businesses in recent times have embarked on digital transformation as they strive to keep existing customers happy while creating opportunities for new ones. It is worth noting that investments in data related concepts have soared, making data concepts such as data analytics, machine learning, interpretation of structured and unstructured data highly prevalent as these enable fast decision making for business agility.

whitePaper | April 18, 2023

The MIT Future of Data Initiative is leading a multi-disciplinary research agenda to design and stimulate the deployment of consumer-empowering and accountable systems to provide trusted, traceable uses of personal data on an ecosystem-wide scale. The Initiative has gathered together computer science and Internet policy researchers as well as leading commercial enterprises in financial services, payment technology, cloud platforms, insurance and other sectors to discuss current challenges and opportunities in privacy and data governance. Today’s modern privacy laws place appropriately high expectations on organizations processing personal data. At the same time, consumers report declining trust in those who handle their personal data and regulators around the world struggle with the scale of the enforcement challenge. We aim to identify and put into service technical infrastructure for enterprises seeking to handle personal data in a trustworthy and lawful manner with guardrails to enable the traceable, accountable, and scalable use of data.

whitePaper | June 2, 2022

Data lakeshold enormous promise in supporting modern enterprise data architectures. Their ability to store a full variety of data types and handle ever-larger data volumes generated at high velocity have contributed to their widespread adoption.

whitePaper | March 12, 2020

Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT) is the penultimate phase of Acceptance Testing in a Software Testing Life cycle and is the last defence line between a software development project and deployment of software on production. FFor decedes, Operational Acceptance has been undermined and misunderstood. Where User Acceptance has been written about and hailed as a final phase in testing before production. User Acceptance is but one side of the coin, Operational Acceptance is the other.