IDG Contributor Network: Shed light on your dark data before GDPR comes into force

Also referred to as unstructured data, dark data is growing at a rate of 62% per year, according to IDG. By 2022, they say, 93% of all data will be unstructured.  Gartner defines dark data as, “the information assets organizations collect, process and store during regular business activities, but generally fail to use for other purposes”. Consisting of data from a huge variety of sources - emails, documents, instant messages, digital media posts, partly developed applications &