So says international research firm IDC in its white paper “The High Cost of Not Finding Information” by analysts Susan Feldman and Chris Sherman. The paper, summarized here, lists many consequences of inability to access data, including poor decision making, a duplication of efforts, lost revenue if customers can’t find…

I mentioned in a previous blog that the struggle of working with files today (and #thestruggleisreal) is not that we’re dealing with more files than ever before. Some people felt I was wrong, because their drives and online folders keep growing and growing along with their workload. Fair point, so…

This morning we officially announced our upcoming enterprise file search product, DirectSearch, which will change the way you work with files, and even change the way you work with other humans. DirectSearch solves several problems. The files you need, day in and day out, are scattered on your own computer…

Below is a post about how Cloudtenna uses machine learning, natural language processing, and an understanding on who is using which files to deliever a far more effective file search than traditional desktop search. It is a mess to manage files. (1) We are creating more content than ever. …

In a recent post, we discussed Cloudtenna’s new approach to Identity Management (IDM). But now that you have an identity, what happens next? Identity management opens the door to the many file repositories a user accesses every day. Files are scattered across these disparate data silos, and it has become…

How many apps do you use in a given day? Between Slack, Dropbox, and Salesforce, I’m constantly bouncing back and forth throughout my day. Realistically, employees now use dozens of apps. Naturally, enterprises struggle to keep track of files that have become scattered across many on-prem and cloud services. Cloudtenna…

[NOTE: This was first published on LinkedIn] For all Jon Snow’s heroism, for all of Tyrian Lannister’s cunning, HBO could not prevent the latest in the ongoing series of high-profile data breaches (Littlefinger? Ramsey Bolton? He is, after all, a pirate.) Such breaches have plagued organizations from the federal government…

[NOTE: Originally published on LinkedIn] In 1990, Steve Jobs made a now famous analogy, suggesting he sees the computer as a “bicycle for the mind.” He noted a study he read that demonstrated that humans are not optimized for locomotion, expending more energy than a condor to travel the same…