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BRINGING VISIBILITY TO
THE ISSUE OF WEB
DATA BLOAT
Data management is crucial for performance accuracy
and security and can have a negative impact on a
system if not handled correctly. Francesco Giarletta,
CEO of Avanite, examines the potential security issues
that simple web browsing data can cause and how web
data bloat can be reduced.
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henever a user visits a website,
data is created, downloaded
and stored. Some of this data is
useful; it enables us to get the rich browsing
experience we expect from the sites we
visit. But as websites and web applications
become increasingly connected and
complex, the amount of browsing data
also grows, quickly reaching a point where
computer performance is impacted. What's
more, that data in browsing databases can
include highly sensitive information, putting
organisations’ security at risk.
Of course, the issue of the web data is as
old as the Internet itself, so it would be
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perfectly reasonable to question why this is
now an issue. So how and why has the web
browsing data problem evolved into not only
a potential risk to IT performance, but also
organisations’ privacy?
Inconvenience to
impacting performance
While web data has always been a
potential inconvenience to users and
organisations, it started to become a
bigger problem when Microsoft introduced
Windows 8.0 and Internet Explorer 10.
At this point, the computing behemoth
introduced the webcachev01.dat database,
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WHAT IS NEEDED
IS A SOLUTION
THAT COMPLETELY
MANAGES ALL
ASPECTS OF WEB
DATA, OFFERING
ORGANISATIONS
THE OPPORTUNITY
TO STRIKE A
BALANCE WHICH
BEST SUITS
THEIR SPECIFIC
REQUIREMENTS.
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