Digital footprint
- In a company, many methods can be applied to reduce digital footprints, which are created by the use of a computer system. One of the techniques is restricting the use of the company database so that only authorized personnel have access to it. Some companies also limit the size of the company email, which is allotted to the employees, to ensure minimal and appropriate space requirements and avoid space wastage.
Sine digital footprint is connected to the system space, increasing the disk space or adding hardware to the system can also increase the chances of a reduced digital footprint. However, it might add some extra costs to the company in the form of maintenance and installation costs. Reduced digital footprints will ensure better application performance, reduced time taken for file processing, reduced time for overhead processes (such as file processing and system scanning) and will also increase the allocated system space for energy-efficient applications.
- Various companies nowadays are adapting new data governance techniques such as internal data cleansing and de-duplication of saved data to reduce the digital footprint left by the company. This is very much important since the digital footprint causes many problems for the company, such as increasing the storage capacity of the company, due to which more costs are incurred for their maintenance and installations. Also, reducing the data footprint will enable the overhead processes to take less time.
Reducing the digital footprint will also enhance the performance of the IT resources, such as storage capacity, cooling power, et cetera. It will also help in reducing environmental damage, as system cooling processes and heating would be regulated. The network areas will be benefited from this, as lowering or eliminating digital footprint will increase the bandwidth of any Local Area Network (LAN), Storage Area Network (SAN), Wide Area Network (WAN) or Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) present within the company.