Guest blogger Phil Goodwin from IDC highlights the dangers of application failures as they recover to inconsistent data states, potentially triggering significant costs. How can the industry step up to the challenge?

Analyst Peter Burris says value, opportunity and advantage now belong to the ‘data first’ business. Andrea Braida asks him how you can capitalize on that thought, and how ‘live data’ enables the digital enterprise.

Capturing and understanding data is super-critical, and for today’s enterprises ‘no data’ equals ‘no business.’ As a response, companies have rushed to fill huge data lakes, designed to pool every scrap of useful information as an enterprise resource.