by Angela Guess
David Roe of CMS Wire reports, “The really surprising thing about Symantec’s State of Information Survey 2012 is just how mundane it actually is. Not because the facts that it contains are mundane, but because the problems around information management, or lack of management, are so well known that it seems not a lot can surprise any more. That is not to say that the report is not useful, because it is. But it’s real use in light of what we know from one report or another about information mismanagement is that it actually quantifies what is happening across the information management industry — most enterprises have a long way to go yet before they can safely say they have mastered their information.”
Roe continues, “The research itself was carried out for Symantec for ReRez Research which carried out a survey across 4,506 organizations with between 5 and over 5000 employees across 38 countries in February and March of this year. The result is some insights on information use that are fairly accurate across large sections of global markets. And almost universally across the companies that were surveyed, there is no clearly defined information strategy that covers issues like information sprawl, lost data and recovery, and the rising costs of storage.”
