This document outlines several key challenges in managing information including dealing with large volumes of unstructured data, ensuring data and system security against threats like cybercrime, maintaining business continuity through reliable backups and storage, adapting to the rapid changes of the internet and new technologies, and balancing different computing options like data centers, cloud, and desktop environments.

1. Key Challenges in managing
Information

2. the influences

4. the challenges

5. Data Management
• Volume of data
• File vs Repository
• Structured vs Unstructured
• Duplication / Archiving
• Legacy data
• Data protection

6. Security
• Data loss
• Spam, denial of service
• Viruses, Malware and Trojans
• Cyber crime
• Internal vs external threats
• Security & auditing
• Policy / Monitoring

7. Business Continuity
•Backup vs archive
• Disk vs tape
• Virtualization
•The hypervisor serves as a platform
• Persistent reliable storage
• Robustness
• Redundancy
• Planning
• Priority

8. The Internet
• Rapid rate of change
• Changing business models
• Changing social patterns
• Move to ip6
• Information overload

9. Changing Technology
• data centre vs cloud computing vs desktop
• virtualization
• open source vs licensed software
• increased complexity / redundancy