Biographical Information
Bryant Bell
Senior Product Marketing Manager, EMC
Bryant Bell is a senior product marketing manager with EMC. He has spent more than 18 years in information technology and services as a global market strategist and a specialist in IT and legal software and services. He has more than eight years experience in the field of e-discovery and governance with such companies as Wolters Kluwer, EMC and Adobe. In his current role, he serves as a subject matter expert for information governance and archiving. He also consults with EMC's IIG client base on issues associated with managing aging data and application decommissioning helping to reduce compliance risks and cost.
Articles by Bryant Bell
The Future: Where Big Data and Information Governance Meet?
24 Aug 2014
For nearly two decades, large enterprises have complained about how much information they have to store, manage and protect. As regulations regarding that information steadily grow in number and complexity, they complain louder. The stakes—penalties and reputational damage for mishandled information—get higher. But a solution always seems just out of reach.
Fifteen years ago, there were no CIOs. We had VPs of MIS (management information services). If you'd asked one of them whether the problems of data growth, complexity and security—what we now call information governance—would be solved by 2014, the answer likely would have been "yes." A good bet, but wrong. . . .