Preserving Large Quantities of Data and Maintaining Digital Sovereignty

Résumé

Corporate data are often the most valuable assets that companies need to access, analyze and therefore preserve to ensure business continuity. As technologies are evolving rapidly and the volume of data is increasing exponentially, the straightforward response to this challenge is to outsource the problem to external IT companies that can provide attractive costs and effective solutions. However, this does not come without the risk of creating uncontrolled external dependencies and vendor lock-in that turn to be irreversible and can endanger the core business itself and even threaten its survival.
This paper presents some issues and mitigation strategies that could be adopted in designing proper solutions.