CIO Survey

Managing the data monster

Data is growing fast – faster, certainly, than most companies can keep up with.

01 April 2011

You have to feel a little sympathy for the tax department. As more members of our occasionally errant population ’fess up and pay their taxes, the volume of data the department has to handle is an ever-increasing burden.

This month, we asked CIOs how they plan to handle the growing volume of data that companies need to process, protect and store. Tau Mashigo, CIO of the South African Revenue Service (SARS), says this is a major challenge for SARS as its data growth has been huge and continues to climb at a massive rate.

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