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Data is Everywhere











             Systems collect masses and masses                                                                               All of the activity of a

             of data, not all of it directly related                                                                         system is stored as some

                                                                                                                             form of data somewhere.
             to the application we are using                                                                                 Very often the metadata



                    • Syslogs                                                                                                that is used to manage out

                    • Performance logs                                                                                       data storage can contain
                                                                                                                             useful information.
                    • File and disk metadata                                                                                 Structured data gives us


                    • Customer IP addresses                                                                                  the information we knew
                                                                                                                             we would need when we
                    • Memory soft errors etc. etc. etc.                                                                      created the structure but

                                                                                                                             often there is valuable
             This is all data stored on our system                                                                           information we need to


             that we never look at                                                                                           answer questions we did

                                                                                                                             not envision when the

                                                                                                                             system was first

                                                                                                                             commissioned.




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