The following excerpt was taken from the original article posted on July 14, 2022 in The New Stack.
"CTOs and other technology leaders that want to ensure their companies are in a good position for a recovery can save money long-term by taking a look at how they manage their data.
“Enterprises can put an end to costly and complex data copies, duplication, and endless IT integration projects through adopting the Zero Copy Integration framework — an emerging standard in Canada being communicated to national and international standards bodies that defines a data-centric, as opposed to code-centric, approach for the design and delivery of new digital solutions,” said Karanjot Jaswal, chief technology officer for data-collaboration company Cinchy.
The Zero Copy Integration framework is an evolution of the privacy-by-design standard that decouples data from individual applications in order to eliminate silos and copies, and that introduces universally enforced access controls, he said.
“This enables better control and governance, helps in the creation of metadata, and helps everyone to better understand the enterprise,” he said.
An organization can be better prepared to seize opportunities in a recovery by implementing the Zero Copy Integration framework, but there’s a caveat for those that might see it as a quick fix when a recession hits.
The long-term benefits of implementing the framework properly would be significant, but the upfront cost wouldn’t be trivial, said Nitha Puthran, senior vice president for cloud and infrastructure at Persistent Systems, a technology services company.
“This needs to be designed into a solution, not adapted to it,” she said.
According to Puthran, companies could centralize their data by adopting the Zero Copy Integration framework, which means there’s only one set of data to archive and protect."