Scaling that mountain of data:
Ten Questions with
ZL Technologies' CEO
Kon Leong
Ten Questions with
ZL Technologies' CEO
Kon Leong
February 28, 2011
When you have 10 files, you have data. When you have a thousand files in different formats with dates, authorizations, priorities and so on, you have data about your data. Creating new ways to keep it all sorted out and managed will yield
data about the data about your data. Et cetera ad infinitum.
When you have 10 files, you have data. When you have a thousand files in different formats with dates, authorizations, priorities and so on, you have data about your data. Creating new ways to keep it all sorted out and managed will yield
data about the data about your data. Et cetera ad infinitum.
Managing metadata has been Kon Leong's consuming passion for more than a decade now. He believes getting rid of a file can be an even bigger challenge than keeping it.
"There are some important changes and developments going on at each stage of the lifecycle, but I believe the last step is the one that poses the greatest challenge. It's one of the dirty little secrets right now and hasn't gotten sufficient scrutiny. At the scale of the Fortune 500, because of the complexity and the requirements, I see very few solutions out there being capable of actually eliminating a document..." Kon Leong is the CEO of ZL Technologies and is based in San Jose, CA. When he's not busy running the company, he enjoys roaming around the globe, learning new languages and cultures.
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copyright 2011 - jeff cerny
copyright 2011 - jeff cerny
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