data silo

Data silos have long been regarded as an important way to protect against the misuse of personal information.

Separately, international scientists are pushing cross-border initiatives to break down data silos.

The costs of the data silo are estimated at £12bn, although the Home Office has suggested it might be run in the private sector.

That approach contrasts with today’s system of secretive data silos for particular studies of specific diseases.

This represents the unanimous view of the firms that are to replace the £12bn data silo planned before the crisis in public finances.

Data silos may be antithetical to the concept of Government on-line or e-governments; there is no doubt that they are "less efficient".

Indeed, Trudel examines some of the challenges inherent in the current legal regime, whose privacy principles are premised on the traditional concept of data silos.

These problems are often referred to as "siloing" and, in agreement with Dixon, PricewaterhouseCoopers says that data lakes could "put an end to data silos".

This centralized resource is designed to reduce the number of systems and data silos currently in operation, creating a standardized and efficient approach to Microsoft's financial processes.

MaXware's MVD acts as an abstraction layer, extracting identity and context information out of various application and data silos.

The limitations of Surgient's previous NAS system created disparate data silos and hindered system performance, slowing resource allocation for its hosted customers.

Data defined storage unifies all data repositories and exposes globally distributed stores through the global namespace, eliminating data silos and improving storage utilization.

New Sun E10000 mainframes and HSM data silos will be configured to support the ITS Business Continuity Plan.

In July 2010, Radiant Logic launched Context Browser, which lets users search structured information across data silos, and enables integration across specialized applications and databases.

Unify metadata: Extract schemas from the local data source, map them to a common format, and link the same identities from different data silos based on a unique identifier.

Traditional systems were simply not designed to effectively manage file-based data, resulting in disparate data silos that complicate back-up operations, lengthening back-up windows and jeopardizing data availability.

Furthermore, the survey results reveal that the top reference data management challenge facing institutions is the continued existence of data silos, which ranked first and second in severity for 50% of respondents.

With the increase in user generated content, disparate data silos, and file formats, information architects and taxonomist will be required to allow users the ability to tag (classify) the data.

Further, many consumers are asked to, and do, sign consent forms which authorize openended sharing of information with third parties. Personal information used to be collected and kept product-by-product (in "data silos").

Indeed, there are already huge quantities of raw data available, but they may be in different formats, different languages, from different source types and are often hidden from view in data silos.

Insight also allows scientists to ask questions that cannot be answered by a single data source, minimizing data silos and ensuring that results produced by one group are immediately available to scientists in another department.

The offering enables capturing, analysis and correlation of data from multiple sensors and systems, including audio, video, radio, geo-location and web, providing a framework for fusing data silos into a single, holistic operational view.

Autonomy's Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) will allow Groupe Mutuel to aggregate its data silos and deliver information more efficiently to over 1,300 employees across various geographical locations.

Such standards are required to guide new data development away from the patchwork of "data silos" that currently exist and direct efforts toward cross-jurisdictional comparability and a vision for an integrated health information system for Canada.

For example: Across different data silos - employee records, vendor data, watch lists, etc. - an organization may have several variations of an identity named ABC, which may or may not be the same individual.