By Tom Sullivan Data is more important than ever, and companies need new ways to manage it DATA IS everywhere.
Every day there is more and more of it.
Managing this data alone is a challenge, but now companies face more and more types of data and more and more locations of that data. And the sources of data are growing as well. Witness the variety of corporate, personal, and industrial devices that not only house data but, more important, are becoming enabled to hook into back-end data sources to feed and retrieve data. The result of incorporating all these different data types and sources is that data management is changing into a broader category of managing content that includes all data types, vendors say. Data, data everywhere To keep up with the data explosion, database vendors are working to manage more data types, and in some cases they are doing so from within the core database engine.