Cold archiving
Cold archiving means the storage of rarely accessed data on low-energy, high-performance media, which helps to reduce the carbon footprint.
Content ROT
ROT encompasses three types of data: Redundant, Obsolete, and Trivial. It refers to information that is no longer useful or relevant, often cluttering storage systems and making data management more challenging.
Data life cycle
The data life cycle covers all of the stages through which data passes: from creation to destruction, collection to storage, usage to archiving.
Digital cleaning
Digital cleaning involves sorting and eliminating unnecessary or obsolete files, applications and emails. This process frees up storage space, improves device performance, and simplifies data management.
Digital environmental footprint
Digital environmental footprint measures the ecological impact of information technologies, including energy consumption, CO2 emissions, and the production of electronic waste.
Digital governance
Digital governance: Digital governance involves establishing policies, procedures and controls to ensure responsible, secure and sustainable use of information technology within an organisation.
Data obsolescence
Data obsolescence occurs when information becomes outdated or useless, requiring it to be deleted or archived to optimise storage and systems efficiency.
Data processing
The series of operations performed on data to transform, analyze, and organize it into a useful format for further use. This process typically involves collecting raw data, filtering, sorting, analyzing, processing, storing, and presenting it.
Digital sobriety
Digital sobriety means the moderate and thoughtful use of digital tools, aimed at reducing energy and material consumption. This includes purchasing fewer devices, repairing rather than replacing, and limiting screen time.
Dormant data
Dormant data is information that is stored but rarely used, taking up storage space unnecessarily and potentially slowing down systems.
Eco-conception
Digital eco-design aims to develop technological products and services that minimise their environmental impact throughout their life cycle, from manufacturing to end of life.
European Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive
a European Directive requiring companies to disclose information on sustainability, including environmental, social and governance impacts, for increased transparency and better corporate responsibility.
Green IT
Green IT means information and communication technologies (ICT) designed to reduce the negative impacts of human activity on the environment. This includes practices to minimise energy consumption and electronic waste.
Infobesity
Infobesity describes information overload resulting from an overabundance of digital data, hindering effective information management and decision-making.
IT for Green
IT for Green refers to the use of information technology to support and improve environmental initiatives. This includes analysing data to optimise energy efficiency and natural resource management.
Responsible digital
Responsible digital combines practices aimed at reducing the environmental and social impact of digital technologies. This includes ongoing initiatives to reduce the carbon footprint of ICT and to promote sustainable usage.
Retention labels
Retention labels are tags that are applied to data to indicate how long it should be retained before being deleted or archived, depending on the organisation's policies.
Stale data
Stale data is data that has not been updated at the required frequency for its intended use, making it outdated or no longer relevant. This can lead to inaccurate insights and misguided decisions.
Storage clean up
Storage clean up refers to the process of removing unnecessary files and data from a storage device to free up space and improve system performance. This can include deleting temporary files, old backups, and other ROT data.
Storage quotas
Storage quotas limit the amount of data a user or application can store, encouraging more efficient management of storage resources and reducing costs.
Versioning
Versioning helps to maintain and manage different versions of a file over time. It is essential in applications like Word and OneDrive, as it makes it easy to track changes and ensures that previous versions can be recovered when needed.
