The Register and LucidLink are hosting a dinner for senior technology, infrastructure and data leaders at the Covent Garden Hotel on Tuesday 24 November. Joe Fay of The Register is in the chair. The subject is one most of them will know from their own shop, where the same file lives in several places at once and nobody is quite sure which copy is current.
Most organisations have a folder that proves it. There's a file called final, another called final2, and then the one people are actually using, which somebody emailed to a contractor last Thursday.
It's mildly funny until two people spend a week editing different copies and one of them loses the argument. Meanwhile the storage bill picks up another copy of everything, and each team that builds its own way round the problem gives IT another place it can't see into.
Alan Marshall, Strategic Director, EMEA at LucidLink, joins a small group of peers at the table, and nobody is there to give a presentation. Because the evening is held under the Chatham House Rule, people tend to say what really happened, like the team that quietly built its own sync service because the approved one was too slow, or the leaver who could still open a file share months after going.
From there the conversation widens out to unstructured data that won't stop growing, the duplicate storage piling up, the security risk of access scattered across all those copies, and how to modernise without binning the storage and governance the business has already paid for.
Drinks start at 6.30pm, then it's dinner around one table until 9pm. Places are limited.
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