How Can Businesses Handle Data Sprawl?
ITPro, Monday, July 7th, 2025
Poor data observability opens the door to security vulnerabilities
Data sprawl is the uncontrolled - and often undocumented - spread of data across an organization's systems, platforms, locations and formats. This includes on premises infrastructure, user devices, SaaS applications and cloud providers.
But we're probably doing data an injustice describing the issue as such, says Tim Nelms, senior director analyst at Gartner, as the principal challenge is with content sprawl. 'Content - unstructured data - represents 80% of corporate information,' he points out.